KROEBER ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY PAPERS Number 5 BERKELEY, 1951 THE K OEB ER ANTOPOLOGICAL SOCIE TY PAPERS NUMRBER 5 The Kroeber Anthropologica1 Society Berkeley, California Fall, 1951 THE KROEBER ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY PAPERS Number 5 may 15, 1952 Publi-shed by the Kroeber Anthropological Society Arnold R. Pilling, President; Dwight Wallace, Vice-President; Ruth Shelley, Secretary; Albert B. Elsasser, Treasurer; Bernard G. Hoffman, Editor; Harriet Huguenin, Program Chairman; Rachel K. Eclkman, Program Secretary; Marie Page Beokham, Suzanne Bessac, and Patricia E. Cody, Public Relations Committee; Sylvia Broadbent, Gordon Grossoup, Patricia L. Kleinecke (1952), and Donald Lathrap (1951), Publications Managers. Address all correspondence tot The Kroeber Anthropological Society, c/o The Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley 4, California. 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INFORMATION REGARDING SUBSCRIPTIONS AND BACK NUMBERS Subscriptions to the Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers is by membership in the Society only, athedollr r year. Additional copies may be ordered at the following prices: Issue Members Non-members No. 1 $ .65 $ 1.00 No. 2 1.00 1.50 No. 3 1.00 1.50 No. 4 1.00 1.65 No. 5 l.OQ 1.75 No. 6 1.00 1.75 iv PREFACE The Kroeber Anthropological Society is pleased to- present this new issue of its Papers to its membership. It feels that the articles to be found within the number not only cover a varied and interesting range of fields, but also represent signifioant contributions to the studies of ethnology, physical anthropology, and linguistics. The first article in the issue calls attention to a neglected but important aspect of Latin American native medicine-the classification of plants and animals, and parts thereof, into "hot" and "cold" categories. The contribution first discusses the historical origins of this concept and iienatur. bt its a,ppl.seatiezs. and then presents hme suggestions for field recording of the belief. It may be noted- here that this classi- fication is still- in use in the Old World-in the Mediterranean area and, intereEtingly enough, in China. Our second paper initiates a practice which the Society hopes to continue into the future-that of publishing previously unprinted or untranslated materials relating to the Russian period in North America. The documents selected for this issue deal with the trial of a Christian- ized Tlingit on charges of sorcery, and reveal previously unsuspected aspects of culture change among these people. The documents are followed by an able discussion of their ethnological significance by Miss Menzel. The succeeding work summarizes the studies of Northeastern Siberian physical types.made by G. F. Debets, the leading Soviet physical anthro- pologist. Based as they are upon the largest series of measurements yet made upon the native populations of the Frr North-the series covers 1180 males and 772 females-these studies represent an important contri- bution to physical anthropology, and will probably not be superseded in the near future. Debetat conclusions are of great interest to all anthropologists concerned with the Arctic: in brief, he finds that the specific peculiarities of the ,siatic iEskimo physical type find no analogies among the other peoples of Siberia-at least among the modern populations; that the "Americanoid" or "non-Mongoloid" traits of these people cannot be explained by European admixture; and that the idea of an Eskimo "wedge" separating the Indians from the Palaeo-Asiatics is without racial foundation. Thus, the question of the origin of the Eskimo physical type must be approached in a new light. The concluding paper presents a classification of singular and plural suffixes of Kisi nouns, and illustrates this'with a variety of examples. This work augments the phonemic analysis of Kisi which appeared in number 2 of these Papers. Bernard G. Hoffman, Editor. it ACKNOWLEDOEINTS We wish to offer our sincere thanks to those whose names appear bel,ow for their generous assistance in the preparation of this issue eof the Kroeber Anthropological Society Paperss Mary Allison Rachel okman Patricia Markls Richard Bachenheimer Albert Elsasser Margery McLorkle Marie Becokham Winifred Elsasser Thomas MoCorkle James Bennyhcff - Leroy Fischer Thendore MoCown Suzanne Bessae James Arthur Freed Themas MoKern Thomas Bolt James Gasaway Clement Maighan William Burd Nancy Gilmer William- Newbern Octavie Page Carleton Ch6rie Gregoire Ronald Olson larjorie Cline Shirley Gudmundeen Arnold Pilling Patricia Cody Mary Haas Janet Pumphrey R^bert Conkling Bernard Hoffman Dorothy Riddell John Costa Harriet Huguenin John Rowe Nancy Crenshaw Kathryn Huggins Ruth Shelley Charmian Crittenden Mary Jean Kennedy Carol Wallace Charlot Davis David Kleinecke Dwight Wallaoe Goode Davis Nancy Laubacoh Mary Anne Whipple Ruth Dowdalkin Adra Long Sylvia M. Broadbent Gordon L. Grossecup Patricia L. Kleineclke Publications Managers vi CONTENTS Preface, by 8ernrd G* If6Zan . . pase v Suggestions for Field RMoording of Information on the Hippocratic Classification of Diseases and Remedies, by George M. Foster and John H. Rowe 1 Papers Relating to the Trial of' Feodor Bashmrkoff for Sorcery at Sitca in 1829. Translated from the Russian by Iven etrov, with Ethnographic Commnts by Dorothy Mensel 6 New Light on the Racial Composition of North- eastern Biberia, by Chester S. Chard 26 A Tentative Analysis of the Pluralization of Kisi Nouns, by 'illiamJ. 8marin 48 Announcements of Meetings 86 TABLES Table 1. Measurements tor Malet 33 Table 2. Neasurements for Femles 38 Chart of Plural and Singular &xAtfiixes of Kisi Nouns 61