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Heizer, Robert F., and Albert B. Elsasser (eds.)

1973: Original Accounts of the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island. Ballena Press, Ramona, CA. [reprinted from:

Reports of the University of California Archaeological Survey No. 55, Berkeley (1961)]

 

Hudson, Travis

1978: Recently Discovered Accounts Concerning the "Lone Woman" of San Nicolas Island. Journal of California and

Great Basin Anthropology 3(2):187-199.

 

Morgan, Ron

1979: An Account of a Discovery of a Whale Bone House on San Nicolas Island. Journal of California and Great Basin

Anthropology 1(1):171-177.

 

Woodward, Arthur

1957: Juana Maria - Sidelights on the Indian Occupation of San Nicolas Island. The Westerners Brand Book, Los Angeles Corral, No. 7: 245-270. Los Angeles.

Chumash Culture

Blackburn, T.C.

1975: December's Child: A Book of Chumash Oral Narratives. University of California Press, Berkeley.

 

Blackburn, T.C., and K. Anderson (eds.)

1993: Before the Wilderness: Environmental Management by Native Californians. Ballena Press, Menlo

Park.

 

Grant, Campbell

1993: The Rock Paintings of the Chumash. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara. [originally

published 1965, still the single best, most accessible book on the Chumash].

 

Heizer, R.F. (ed.)

1978: Handbook of the Indians of North America, Vol. 8: California. Smithsonian Institution, Washington,

D.C. Press, Berkeley.

 

Holmes, Marie S. and John R. Johnson

1998: The Chumash and Their Predecessors: An Annotated Bibliography. Santa Barbara Museum of

Natural History, Contributions in Anthropology No. 1.

 

Hudson, T.

1980: Breath of the Sun: Indian Life in Spanish California, Reminiscences by Fernando Librado.

Malki Museum Press, Banning, CA. [out of print]

1982: Guide to Painted Cave. McNally & Loftin, Santa Barbara

 

Hudson, T. and T. Blackburn

The Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere. Ballena Press Anthropological Papers, Menlo Park,

CA. [an important five-volume reference work]

1982: Vol. I: Food Procurement and Transportation. BPAP #25

1983: Vol. II: Food Preparation and Shelter. BPAP #27

1985: Vol. III: Clothing, Ornamentation and Grooming. BPAP #28

1986: Vol. IV: Ceremonial Paraphernalia, Games and Amusements. BPAP# 30

1987: Vol. V: Manufacturing Processes, Metrology, and Trade. BPAP #31

 

Hudson, T., T. Blackburn, R. Curletti and J. Timbrook

1977: The Eye of the Flute: Chumash Traditional History and Ritual as Told by Fernando Librado

Kitsepawit to John P. Harrington. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA. [out of print]

 

Hudson, T., J. Timbrook and M. Rempe

1978: Tomol: Chumash Watercraft as Described in the Ethnographic Notes of John P. Harrington.

Ballena Press Anthropological Papers No. 9. [out of print]

 

Hudson, T. and E. Underhay

1978: Crystals in the Sky: An Intellectual Odyssey Involving Chumash Astronomy, Cosmology and

Rock Art. Ballena Press Anthropological Papers No. 10.

 

Johnson, John R. and Black Gold Library System

1997: Native Americans on the Central Coast: A Photo Essay, Black Gold Library System

 

Kroeber, A.L.

1925: Handbook of the Indians of California. pp. 550-568: Chumash. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin

78. Dover Publications reprint, 1976

 

Landberg, L.C.W.

1965: The Chumash Indians of Southern California. Southwest Museum Papers 19.

 

McCall, L. and R. Perry (eds.)

1986: California's Chumash Indians. A Project of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

Education Center. John Daniel, Publisher, Santa Barbara, CA.

 

1982: The Chumash People: Materials for Teachers and Students. EZ Nature Books, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Sixth printing, revised 1991.

 

Walker, P.L., and T. Hudson

1993: Chumash Healing: Changing Health and Medical Practices in an American Indian Society. Malki

Museum Press, Banning.

 

 

SANTA BARBARA REGIONAL PREHISTORY

 

Arnold, J.E.

1987: Craft Specialization in the Prehistoric Channel Islands, California. University of California

Publications in Anthropology, Vol. 18. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles.

 

Erlandson, J.M.

1994: Eary Hunter-Gatherers of the California Coast. Plenum Press, New York and London.

 

Glassow, M.A.

1996: Purisimeno Chumash Prehistory. Harcourt Brace College Publishers, Fort Worth.

 

King, C.D.

1990: Evolution of Chumash Society. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York and London.

 

Orr, P.C.

1968: Prehistory of Santa Rosa Island. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA. [out of print]

 

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