Mel, I saw your message and went looking for the Gifford title(s), didn't find a copy available with online booksellers. Found titles about the Miwok "material culture" instead. It seems anthropologists didn't pay much attention to the individual persons they were studying unless it was someone who was part of the tourist entertainment. :) Of course, I admit the oldtime Indians were not very forthcoming about personal matters, did not like having their photo taken, did not want their songs recorded, and so forth. Sometime I will post the words to a song that Floyd Westerman wrote about anthropologists. :) In the meanwhile, some of us Injun descendants are having a hard time tracing our Miwok ancestors. I have an idea the Gifford book probably deals with marriage customs, moieties and such, but it would be wonderful if it actually mentioned real individual Miwoks and their relationship. Joan aka Lost-in-Branches-of-Family-Tree ===================================================== In a message dated 10/23/00 8:17:10 AM Pacific Daylight Time, tkelley@yosemite.net writes: > > Backing upp a bit... > I found these two books at the Cal State Library site. I was just wondering > if anyone had reviewed / researched them. > Mel > > 1. Gifford, Edward Winslow, 1887-1959. Miwok lineages / by E.W. Gifford. > \CILC\G53\M6\1944\ > > California State Library [\CILC\G53\M6\1944\] > > 2. Gifford, Edward Winslow, 1887-1959. Miwok lineages and the political > unit in aboriginal California / by Edward Winslow Gifford. > \CILC\G53\M7\1926\ > > California State Library [\CILC\G53\M7\1926\] > > >