California Indian

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Introduction
Traditional culture patterns
- Regional and territorial organization
- Settlement patterns
- Production and technology
- Property and exchange systems
- Leadership and social status
- Religion
- Marriage and child rearing
- Arts
Cultural continuity and change

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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.

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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