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Distribution of Indigenous California peoples Southern Miwok woman with a sifting basket, photograph by Edward S. Curtis, c. 1924. Hupa Female Shaman Chumash cave painting. These paintings were probably created for religious purposes. Pomo feathered gift basket decorated with shell pendants, c. 1890; in the National Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York City.
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Pomo feathered gift basket decorated with shell pendants, c. 1890; in the National Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York City.
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Distribution of Indigenous California peoples
Southern Miwok woman with a sifting basket, photograph by Edward S. Curtis, c. 1924.
Hupa Female Shaman
Chumash cave painting. These paintings were probably created for religious purposes.
Pomo feathered gift basket decorated with shell pendants, c. 1890; in the National Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York City.
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Edward W. Gifford
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Roland B. Dixon
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