An Account of the Indians of the Santa Barbara 

 Islands in California. 



By Gustav Eisen PhD , 



Corresponding Member of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences Prague. 



Présentée! the 8th Januar 1904. 



Introductory. 



Having been requested to write a short aecount of the Indians 

 of the Santa Barbara Islands I aeeepted the invitation with pleasure, 

 tlv>ugh with some misgivings. The fact is that next to nothing is known 

 about these now extinet Iudians, and the few notices extant are so 

 scattered in rare books and periodicals of an evanescent nature, that 

 it would take months and even years to gather them together. In 

 other word s our historical knowledge of the Indians is too sinali to 

 be very interesting though just on that aecount the more valuable. 

 There has never appeared in print any connective narrative of these 

 Indians, and the following notes have been culled from what literatuře 

 I could find without going outside of San Francisco, tógether with 

 notes made during my visits to these islands in 1873 and 1897. At 

 the earliest oi these visits the Indians had already been totally extinet 

 for twenty years. 



While the skulls and skeletons presented to the Society were 

 collected only on the Island of Santa Kosa, I have thought it best 

 to include in this aecount all the other islands of the Channel. There 

 can be no doubt that the natives of all these islands were at the same 

 degree of savagery, and must be considered together, even though we 



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