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The Executive Committee

No. 7 The Montagnais Indians, 1600-1640, by Kenneth S. Lane.Shellfish Foods of the California Indians, by Robert S. Greengo.

113 pp... $51.751953

Nos. 8-9 The Walter B. Cline Memorial VolmePopulation Control and the Family in Feudal and Post-Restoration Japan, by Gordon T. Bowles.The Kamchadal: A Synthetic Sketch, by Chester S. Chard.Clans and the Joking-Relationship among the Plateau Tonga of Northern Rhodesia, by E. Colson.A Dualism in Pomo Cosmology, by A. M. Halpern.Acculturation in California Awl Forms, by Clement WY. Meighan.The Relation between Slit-Gongs and Renown in a Solomon Islands Culture, by Douglas L. Oliver.Mioshie: A New Messianic Cult in Japan, by Ronald L. Olson.Elevan Inca Prayers from the Zithuwa Ritual, by John Rowland Rowe.Culture Loss and Culture Change among the Alicmas of the Canadian Maritime Provinces, 1912-1950,

by Wilson D. Wallis and Ruth Sawtell Wallis.Hot Climates and High Civilizations, by Frederick R. WIulsin.

161 pp... $3.251954

No. 10 Racial Types in Northeastern Asia, by Chester S. Chard.The Selection of Recording Equipment for Field Use, by Alan P. Merriam.Notes on the Panare Indians of Venezuela, by Carroll L. Riley.The Piro of the Urubamba, by Esther Mlatteson.

99 pp.. $1.76

No. 11 The Travels of Coyote: A Karok Mlyth, by William Bright.Piro Phonemes and Morphology, by Esther Mlatteson.Climate and the Aboriginal Occupation of the Pacific Coast of Alaska, by Francis A. Riddell.

121 pp... 11.761955

No. 12 Aspects of Andean Native Life, by Oscar Ntinez del Prado.Analyzed Piro Text: A Boy and a Jaguar, by Esther Mlatteson.Executions by Stoning among the Sierra Miwok and Northern Paiute, by Robert F. Heizer.Time Perspective in Ethnography, by John Howland Rove.Trans-Pacific Similarities in Folklore: A Research Lead, by Edward Norbeck.Relationships of Prehistoric Cultures of Coastal Monterey County, California, by

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94 pp... l$1.75No. 13 Primitive Man as an Ecologic Factor, by Robert F. Heizer.

The Mesolithic Combware Culture of Finland, by Pertti J. Pelto.The Problem of Race in the Ilesolithic of Europe, by Robert J. Squier.Physical Types of the Amur-Sakhalin Region, by Chester S. Chard.A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, by W. E. H. Stanner.

121 pp... $1.75

1958

No. 14 Sonoma Mission: An Archaeological Reconstruction of the Mission San Francisco de SolanoQuadrangle, by Adan E. Treganza.

A Survey of Balkan Houses and Farm Buildings, by Majda Thurnher.Abstracts of Ph.D. Dissertations, University of California, 1946-1949.

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No. 15 A Survey of Italian Godparenthood, by Gallatin Anderson.Dissertations in Anthropology: Titles of Mf.A. and Ph.D. Theses Accepted in the United

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1950

No. 1 Pre-Columbian Trade between North and South America, by Chester S. Chard.Observations on Early Man in California, by Robert F. Heizer.The Idabaea: Unknown Indians of the Choco Coast, by John Howland Rowe.A Reconstruction of Aboriginal Delaware Culture from Contemporary Sources, by Mary W. Herman.Black Market in Prerogative among the Northern Kwakiutl, by Ronald L. Olson.Nepenthe in Aboriginal America, by Franklin Fenenga.

88 pp...out of printNo. 2 Animistic and Rational Thought, by Sol Tax.

Thoughts on Knowledge and Ignorance, by John Rowland Rove.Southern Diegueno Use and Knowledge of Lithic Materials, by W. D. Hohenthal, Jr.The Present Distribution of Indian Languages in Highland Bolivia, by John F. Goins.Kutiawi, a Great Basin Indian Food, by Robert F. Heizer.Current Theories on Incest Prohibition in the Light of Ceremonial Kinship, by Charles J. Erasmus.The Indian Tribes of North America, by David G. Mandelbaum.A Journey up the Sambu River to Visit the Choco Indians, by Arne Arbin.A Provisional Phonemic Analysis of Kisi, by William J. Samarin.

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No. 3 Lost Lakes A study of an agricultural community established on reclaimed land, by Alan R. Bealsand Thomas McCorkle.

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No. 4 Olive Oatman's Return, by A. L. Kroeber.A Glance at Statistical Procedure, by Thomas W. MicKern.Linguistic Elements in Bird Vocalization, by David Nichols.Piro Myths, by Esther Matteson.

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No. 5 Suggestions for Field Recording of Information on the Hippocratic Classification of Diseases andRemedies, by George M. Foster and John H. Rowe.

Papers Relating to the Trial of Feodor Bashmakoff for Sorcery at Sitka in 1892. Translated fromthe Russian by Ivan Petrov, with Ethnographic Commnents by Dorothy Menzel.

New Light on the Racial Composition of Northeastern Siberia, by Chester S. Chard.A Tentative Analysis of the Pluralization of Kisi Nouns, by William J. Samarin.

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No. 6 The Tapajo, by Curt Nimuendaju. Translated and edited by John Howland Rove.A Daily Journal Kept by the Revr. Father Juvenal, Onle of the Earliest Missionaries to Alaska.

Translated by Ivan Petrov.The History of the Guayqueri, anl Approach to the Anthropology of Northeastern Venezuela, by

Thomas MicCorkle.

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THE KROEER4 ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY PAPERS

Number 16 Spring, 1957

Published by the Kroeber Anthropological Society

Lucille Steelman, President; Marilyn Martin, Vice President;Harumi Befu, Secretary; Grover Krantz, Treasurer; LeonardPlotnicoy, Program Chairman; Sheila Fox, Undergraduate Repre-sentative; Martin A. Baumhoff, E. A. Hammel, KatherineHuggins, Co-editors.

Address all correspondence to:

The Kroeber Anthropological Societyc/o The Department of AnthropologyUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeley 4, California

Cover layout and design for 1956-57 by Octavio Romano,University of California, Berkeley. The 1957 cover designis adapted from a shell ornament illustrated in PhillipMills Jones, Archaeological Investigations on Santa RosaIsland in 1901, University of California Publications -Anthropological Records, 17:2, 1956, Plate 105c.

Ronald L. 0/son

Collected byR. L. 0lson

The present number of the Kroeber AnthropologicalSociety Papers is issued in honor of Ronald L. Olson,who served as Professor of Anthropology at the Univer-sity of California from 1931 until his retirement in1956. An appreciation of his career by A. L. Kroeberis given in the following pages.

The design shown on the page facing is from alarge pottery vessel collected by Professor Olson in1930 during archaeological excavations in south Peru.The vessel is among the collections of the AmericanMuseum of Natural History (catalog number 41.0-5314).The drawing shown here is by Mr. Lawrence Dawson ofthe University of California Museum of Anthropology.

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CONTENTS

Ronald Leroy Olson, Retired 1956, by A. L. Kroeber 1

The Closed Community and its Friends, by Julian A.Pitt-Rivers 5

Some Aspects of Peasant Society in Middle America andIndia, by Pedro Carrasco 17

Archaeology in Soviet Asia, 1950-1951, by Chester S. Chard 29

Serbo-Croatian Kinship Terminology, by Eugene A. Hammel 45

Abstracts of Ph.D. Dissertations, University of California,1950-1951 77

Report on the First Annual Anthropological Meeting,sponsored by the Kroeber Anthropological Society,by Lucille Steelman 93

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