Research Catalog

Title

Survival skills of native California / Paul Douglas Campbell.

Author

Campbell, Paul Douglas

Publication

Salt Lake City : Gibbs Smith, c1999.

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Details

Description

xv, 448 p. : ill., 1 map; 29 cm.

Summary

Author Paul Campbell reveals the knowledge he has spent 20 years learning and reproducing from California natives. Included are sections on the basic skills of survival, the tools of gathering and food preparation, and the implements of household and personal necessity, as well as the arts of hunting and fishing. Sample topics include: shelter; greens, beans, flowers and other vegetables; meat preparation; how to make and shoot an Indian bow.--From publisher description.

Subjects

• Life skills guides
• Wilderness survival > California
• Survival > California
• Indians of North America > Material culture > California
• Indians of North America > Industries > California
• Indians of North America > California > Life skills guides

Genre/Form

Life skills guides

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 440-448).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface: The Wisdom of the California Hunter-Gatherer VII -- Introduction: Secrets of Indian Survival XIII -- How Coyote Brought Fire to the Karok -- The Fire Drill 4 -- Fire -- Some Indian Tips 11 -- Shelter: A Continuum of Simplicity -- Minimalists 16 -- Wickiups 18 -- Willow-framed Dome Houses 20 -- Location 30 -- Water 31 -- Chumash Water Bottle 34 -- Indian Travel 41 -- California Cordage -- Fibers and Technology 47 -- Traps 57 -- California Digging Stick 67 -- Acorns and Other Bitter Nuts 80 -- Mortar and Pestle 92 -- Soaproot Brush 98 -- Acorn Storage Basket 100 -- Closely Twined and Coiled Baskets 103 -- A Breakfast of Sweet Acorn Mush with Boiled Shank of Venison 113 -- Southern California Pottery 119 -- Greens, Beans, Flowers and Other Vegetables 136 -- Sugar and Salt 146 -- Berries, Cherries and Other Fruit 149 -- Pine and Other Not So Bitter Nuts 157 -- Seeds and Seed Beater 162 -- Mats 169 -- Carrying Nets 173 -- California Survival Basket 183 -- Household Brushes 188 -- A Strange Baja Basket 190 -- Wooden Bowls, Buckets and Vials 196 -- The Technology of Good Grooming 202 -- Native California Clothing -- An Overview 208 -- Rabbitskin Blanket 213 -- Elderberry Bark Skirt 218 -- Yucca and Agave Fiber Sandals of Southern California 223 -- Yucca Slab Survival Sandals 228 -- Moccasins 231 -- Diegueno Rawhide Sandals 235 -- Plaited Yucca Sandals 236 -- California Elderwood Flute 239 -- Filtered Cigarette 244 -- Indian Stick Game 246 -- California Indian Bows -- The Northern California Wide-limbed, Sinew-backed Bow 254 -- The Sierra Nevada Hook-ended Sinew-backed Bow 258 -- The Southern California Plain Wood Bow 262 -- And Arrows -- Northern California Arrows 277 -- Southern California Arrows 283 -- Quivers 295 -- How to Shoot an Indian Bow 298 -- Bowguard 305 -- The California Atlatl 307 -- The Atlatl Dart 312 -- Throwing the Atlatl Dart 318 -- California Knapping 320 -- Glue 332 -- Stalking 335 -- How to Stalk, Kill and Eat a White-throated Woodrat 340 -- California Hunting Magic: Split-twig Figurines 346 -- California Rabbit Sticks 349 -- Sling 362 -- Snowshoes 364 -- Brain Tanning 369 -- Meat Preparation 374 -- Twined Bags and Hide Sacks 378 -- Wooden War Club 381 -- Insects: Small Quarry, Big Protein 385 -- How California Indians Made Tule Balsas 390 -- Tule Serving Tray 396 -- Twined Double Basket Pomo Fish Trap 397 -- Fishing Nets 405 -- Harpoons, Fish and Sea Mammals 416 -- Indian Angling 423 -- Fish Poison 433 -- Fish and Shellfish Preparation 435.

ISBN

0879059214

LCCN

^^^99024412^

OCLC

• 41070774
• SCSB-9983084

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library