CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY July, 1970 PAPERS ON CALIFORNIA ETHNOGRAPHY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY Department of Anthropology Berkeley Number 9 CONTENTS I. CONTINUITY OF INDIAN POPULATION IN CALIFORNIA FROM 1770/1848 TO 1955, by A. L. Kroeber and Robert F. Heizer ................ 1 II. A CHUMASH "CENSUS" OF 1928-1930, by Robert F. Heizer ................................. 23 III. INDIAN RANCHERIA NAMES IN FOUR MISSION RECORDS, by C. Hart Merriam ................................... 29 1. La Purisma Mission ............................... 30 2. San Buenaventura Mission ......................... 40 3. Mission San Francisco ............................ 49 4. Santa Ynez Mission ............................... 54 IV. MORE J. P. HARRINGTON NOTES ON VENTURENO CHUMASH BASKETRY AND CULTURE, by Robert F. Heizer ................................. 59 Document. An Early Newspaper Account of the Chumash. 75 V. NAMES AND LOCATIONS OF SOME ETHNOGRAPHIC PATWIN AND MAIDU VILLAGES, by Robert F. Heizer and Thomas Roy Hester ............ 79 Documents la-c. Some Sacramento Valley Indian Censuses of 1846 and 1847 ........... 94 Document 2. Spanish Exploring Expedition to Sacramento Valley, 1821 ............. 97 Document 3a-c. Some Early Treaties with California Indians .................. 107 Document 4a-b. Two Sutter Letters on Indians ....... 112 Document 5. An 1850 "Census" of Feather River Villages ...................... 116 VI. SHASTA VILLAGES AND TERRITORY, by Robert F. Heizer and Thomas Roy Hester............ 119 Part 1. Shasta Villages ............................. 120 Part 2. Territorial Boundaries of the Shasta Indians ............................. 133 Documents. Two Letters on U.S. Army Relations with the Shasta Indians .................. 148