Early Studies by Anthropologists and Etnographers

Bancroft, Hubert Howe. California Pastoral, 1769-1848. Vol. 34. 39 vols. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company, 1874. Find at your local library.

———. History of California, Vol. 1, 1542-1890. Vol. 18. 39 vols. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company, 1874. Find at your local library.

———. The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America. Vol. 1 & 3. 39 vols. The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company, 1874. Find at your local library. Access through Internet Archive.

Benson, Arlene, and Stephen Bowers. The Noontide Sun: The Field Journals of the Reverend Stephen Bowers, Pioneer California Archaeologist. Menlo Park, CA: Ballena Press, 1997. Find at your local library.

Berver, Meghan Elizabeth. “On the Shoulders of Seven Giants: Victoria Reid and the World of the Gabrielino.” State University of New York College at Oneonta, 2009. Find at your local library.

Boscana, Gerónimo. “A New Original Version of Boscana’s Historical Account of the San Juan Capistrano Indians of Southern California.” Translated by Peabody Harrington. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, Publication 3255, 92, no. 4 (1934): 1–62. https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/23860

———. Chinigchinich: A Revised and Annotated Version of Alfred Robinson’s Translation of Father Gerónimo Boscana’s Historical Account of the Belief, Usages, Customs, and Extravagancies of the Indians of This Mission of San Juan Capistrano, Called the Acagchemem Tribe. Classics in California Anthropology 3. Banning, CA: Malki Museum Press, Morongo Indian Reservation, 1978. Find at your local library.

———. “Introduccion y Transcipcion Por Bartolome Font Obrador.” In Los Indígenas de California. Lluchmayor, Mallorca, Spain: Imprenta Moderna, 1973.

Brickfield, A. J., and Elaine L Mills. A Guide to the Field Notes: Native American History, Language and Culture of Southern California/Basin. Vol. 3. The Papers of John Peabody Harrington in the Smithsonian Institution, 1907-1957. White Plains, NY: Kraus International Publications, 1986. Find at your local library.

Dakin, Susanna Bryant. A Scotch Paisano: Hugo Reid’s Life in California, 1832-1852, Derived Fron His Correspondence. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1939. Find at your local library.

———. “Rancho Santa Anita, Place of Many Waters.” Lasca Leaves 6, no. 3 (1956): 50–72. https://www.arboretum.org/issue/lasca-leaves-summer-1956/#.

———. “The Restorations at Rancho Santa Anita.” Lasca Leaves 11, no. 1 (1961): 15–21. Website. Find at your local library.

Elsasser, Albert B. “The History of Culture Classification in California.” University of California Archaeological Survey Reports. University of California, January 29, 1960. https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/anthpubs/ucb/text/ucas049-002.pdf. Find at your local library.

Gifford, Edward Winslow. “Californian Balanophagy.” In Essays in Anthropology: Presented to a. L. Kroeber in Celebration of His Sixtieth Birthday, June 11, 1936, edited by Robert Harry Lowie, 87–98. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1936. Find at your local library.

Harrington, John Peabody. Chinigchinich (Chi-Ñićh-Ñich): A Revised and Annotated Version of Alfred Robinson’s Translation of Father Geronimo Boscana’s Historical Account of the Belief, Usages, Customs and Extravagencies [Sic] of the Indians Ofthis Mission of San Juan Capistrano, Called the AcagchememTribe. Edited by Phil Townsend Hanna. Santa Ana, CA: Fine Arts Press, 1933. Find at your local library.

———. “Cultural Element Distribution, XIX, Central California Coast.” University of California, Anthropological Records 7, no. 1 (1942): 1–46. Find at your local library. Access through University of California, Berkeley.

———. “Indian Tribes Found by Me at the Tejon in Nov. 1905,” 1905. BANC FILM, 1022, Reel 13. Holdings at UC Berkeley Bancroft Library.

Harrington, John Peabody, Elaine L. Mills, and Ann J. Brickfield. The Papers of John Peabody Harrington in the Smithsonian Institution, 1907-1957. White Plains, NY: Kraus International Publications, 1985. Find at your local library.

Harrington, Mark Raymond. “A New Gabrielino Vocabulary.” The Masterkey 18, no. 6 (1944): 198. Find at your local library.

Heizer, Robert F. “A Note on Boscana’s Posthumous Relacion.” The Masterkey 50, no. 3 (1976): 99–102. Find at your local library.

Hudson, Dee Travis. “Some J. P. Harrington Notes on the ‘Lone Woman’ of San Nicolas Island.” The Masterkey 52, no. 1 (1978): 23–28. Find at your local library.

Hudson, Travis. “Recently Discovered Accounts Concerning The ‘Lone Woman’ of San Nicolas Island.” Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 3, no. 2 (1981): 187–99. Find at your local library. Access through JSTOR.

Jacknis, Ira. “Alfred Kroeber and the Photographic Representation of California Indians.” American Indian Culture & Research Journal 20, no. 3 (September 1996): 15–32. https://doi.org/10.17953/aicr.20.3.gur5h72113047276. Access through publisher’s website. Find at your local library.

Jones, Terry L., and Kathryn A. Klar. “A Land Visited: Reviewing the Case for Polynesian Contact in Southern California.” In Contemporary Issues in California Archaeology, edited by Terry L. Jones and Jennifer E. Perry, 217–35. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 2012. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.

King, Laura Evertson. “Hugo Reid and His Indian Wife.” Annual Publication of the Historical Society of Southern California and Pioneer Register, Los Angeles 4, no. 2 (1898): 111–13. https://doi.org/10.2307/41167702. Find at your local library. Access through JSTOR.

Kroeber, A. L. Anthropology: Culture Patterns & Processes. A Harbinger Book. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963. Find at your local library.

———. “Area and Climax.” California, University, Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 37 (1936): 101–16.

———. “Continuity of Indian Population in California from 1770/1848 to 1955,” n.d. NARA DC, Docket 31, box 551. 1955. Holdings at California State Library California History Room, Sacramento.

———. Handbook of the Indians of California. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 78. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1925. Access through Biodiversity Heritage Library. Find at your local library.

———. “Notes on California Folk-Lore: A Southern California Ceremony.” The Journal of American Folklore 21, no. 80 (1908): 40. https://doi.org/10.2307/534527 Find at your local library. Access through JSTOR.

———. “Salt, Dogs, Tobacco.” Anthropological Records 6 (1941): 1–20. Find at your local library.

———. “Supposed Shoshoneans in Lower California.” American Anthropologist 7, no. 3 (1905): 570–72. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1905.7.3.02a00100 Find at your local library. Access through Wiley.

Kroeber, Alfred Louis. “A Mission Record of the California Indians From a Manuscript in the Bancroft Library.” University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8, no. 1 (1908): 1–27. Find at your local library. Access through University of California, Berkeley.

———. Anthropology. New York, 1923. Find at your local library.

———. “Basket Designs of the Mission Indians of California. Anthropological Papers of the AMNH ; v. 20, Pt. 2.” Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 20, no. 2 (1922): 149–83. http://hdl.handle.net/2246/144. Find at your local library.

———. “Basketry Designs of the Mission Indians. (Guide Leaflet, No. 55).” American Museum of Natural History Guide Leaflet Series. New York: American Musuem of Natural History, July 1922. https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/7190. Find at your local library.

———. “California Culture Provinces.” University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnography 17, no. 2 (1920): 151–69. Find at your local library. Access through HathiTrust.

———. “California Place Names of Indian Origin.” University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 12, no. 2 (June 15, 1916): 31–69. Find at your local library. Access through University of California, Berkeley.

———. “Elements of Culture in Native California.” University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 13, no. 8 (November 21, 1922): 259–328. Find at your local library. Access through HathiTrust.

———. “Ethnographic Interpretations 7-11, 10. Problems on Boscana.” University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 47, no. 3 (1959): 282–93. Find at your local library. Access through University of California, Berkeley.

———. “Notes on Shoshonean Dialects of Southern California.” University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8, no. 5 (September 16, 1909): 235–69. Find at your local library. Access through University of California, Berkeley.

———. “Shoshonean Dialects of California.” University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 4, no. 3 (February 1907): 66–165. Find at your local library. Access through University of California, Berkeley.

———. “The Religion of the Indians of California.” University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 4, no. 6 (September 1907): 319–56. Find at your local library. Access through University of California, Berkeley.

Lowie, Robert Harry, ed. Essays in Anthropology: Presented to A. L. Kroeber in Celebration of His Sixtieth Birthday, June 11, 1936. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1936. Find at your local library.

McCawley, William. “Tale of Two Cultures: The Chumash and the Gabrielino.” In Islanders and Mainlanders: Prehistoric Context for the Southern California Bight, edited by Jeffrey H. Altschul and Donn R. Grenda, 41–67. Tucson, AZ: SRI Press, 2002. Find at your local library.

———. The First Angelinos: The Gabrielino Indians of Los Angeles. Banning, CA: Malki Museum Press, 1996. Find at your local library.

McLellan, Dennis. “Ode to L.A.’s First Inhabitants: It Took 17 Years to Write, but Bill McCawley’s Book on the Gabrielino Fills a Major Gap in California’s History.” Los Angeles Times. October 24, 1996, sec. Life & Style. Find at your local library. Access through ProQuest.

Nelson, N. C. “Notes on the Santa Barbara Culture.” In Essays in Anthropology: Presented to A. L. Kroeber in Celebration of His Sixtieth Birthday, June 11, 1936, edited by Robert Harry Lowie, 199–209. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1936. Find at your local library.

Reichlen, Henry, and Paule Reichlen. “Le Manuscrit Boscana de La Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris; Relation Sur Les Indiens Acâgchemem de La Mission de San Juan Capistrano, Cal.” Journal de La Société Des Américanistes 60 (1971): 233–73. https://doi.org/10.3406/jsa.1971.2075 Find at your local library. Access online.

Reid, Hiram A, and Alfred James McClatchie. History of Pasadena, Comprising an Account of the Native Indian, the Early Spanish, the Mexican, the American, the Colony, and the Incorporated. Pasadena: Pasadena History Co., 1895. Find at your local library.

Reid, Hugo. “Hugo Reid’s Account of the Indians of Los Angeles Co., Cal. Notes and Illustrations by W.J. Hoffman, M.D.” Essex Institute Bulletin 17, no. 1–3 (1885): 133. Access through LMU.

———. “Letter II, Language. IN Gabrielino Indian Language. Arthur Woodward, Ed. Pp. 148-149.” The Masterkey 18, no. 5 (1944): 145–49. Find at your local library.

———. “Los Angeles County Indians.” Los Angeles Star. February 12, 1852. Find at your local library.

———. “Los Angeles County Indians.” Los Angeles Star. July 24, 1852. Find at your local library.

———. “Los Angeles County Indians.” Los Angeles Star. February 6, 1869. Find at your local library.

———. “Los Angeles County Indians.” Los Angeles Star. February 13, 1869. Find at your local library.

———. “Los Angeles County Indians.” Los Angeles Star. February 20, 1869. Find at your local library.

———. “Los Angeles County Indians.” Los Angeles Star. March 13, 1869. Find at your local library.

———. “Los Angeles County Indians.” Los Angeles Star. March 20, 1869. Find at your local library.

———. “Los Angeles County Indians.” Los Angeles Star. March 27, 1869. Find at your local library.

———. “Los Angeles County Indians.” Los Angeles Star. April 3, 1869. Find at your local library.

———. “Los Angeles County Indians.” Los Angeles Star. April 10, 1869. Find at your local library.

———. “Los Angeles County Indians.” Los Angeles Star. April 17, 1869. Find at your local library.

———. “Los Angeles County Indians.” Los Angeles Star. April 24, 1869. Find at your local library.

———. “Los Angeles County Indians.” Los Angeles Star. May 1, 1869. Find at your local library.

———. “The Indians of Los Angeles County.” Edited by Alexander S. Taylor. California Farmer and Journal of Useful Sciences, The Indianology of California, Second Series, 14, no. 19, 22 (February 11, 1861).

———. The Indians of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles: Arthur M. Ellis, 1926. Find at your local library.

———. The Indians of Los Angeles County: Hugo Reid’s Letters of 1852. Edited by Robert F. Heizer. Southwest Museum Papers 21. Los Angeles: Southwest Museum, 1968. Find at your local library.

Robinson, Alfred, and Gerónimo Boscana. Life in California during a Residence of Several Years in That Territory: Including a Narrative of Events Which Have Transpired since That Period When California Was an Independent Government. Santa Barbara: Peregrine Publishers, 1846. Find at your local library.

———. Life in California during a Residence of Several Years in That Territory: Including a Narrative of Events Which Have Transpired since That Period When California Was an Independent Government. Santa Barbara: Peregrine Publishers, 1970. Find at your local library.

The Chinigchinish Religion: 2000 August 19 Meeting. Videorecording. California Indian Arts Association, 2000. Find at your local library. Access from the Autry Center.