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Overview and Comparative Studies
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Texts
Myths and Legends of California and the Old Southwest — Katharine Berry JudsonKatharine Berry Judson's 1912 popular anthology of sixty-nine creation, flood, and trickster myths and legends from the Zuni, Sia, Navajo, Pima, Hopi, and several California peoples, drawn from earlier ethnologists' published collections.The Religion of the Indians of California — A.L. KroeberA.L. Kroeber's 1907 comparative survey of California Indian religion — individual observances, shamanism, public ceremonies, ceremonial structures, mythology, and tribal variation — with his own bibliographic essay on prior sources.