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Maidu Ethnobotany (1961) (127 pages)
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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
STATEMENT OF THE PRORLZM
From the spring of 1962 until the early spring of 1963, I had the
Sanguine and rewarding task of interviewing some of the few remaining
Maidu Indians in order to record what is still remembered of the botanical lore of this hunting and gathering people, I attempted to cata~
logue the functions of each plant growing in Maidu territory, Kroeber
has divided the Maidu into three segnents: the Southern Maidu, the
Northeastern Maidu,and the Northwestern Maidu.t I have included data
on @ subdivision of the latter group-~the Concow,
Powers! brief work in the 1870's and mine in 1962 by no means
constitute a full account of the botanical lore of the Maidu. < A fur=
ther inquiry and study into this subject would assure valuable addiitions to our knowledge of Maidu material culture, and since so few
knowledgeable informants remain, the sooner such a study could be
carried out and be made available for publication, the better, Other
aspects of Maidu culture, especially the mythology and the music, would
also bear further study, preferably with the aid of modern tape recording
equipment.
1
Ae Le Kroeber, Handbook of the Indians of California, pp. 392-393,
“s, Powers, op. cit.