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INFOULTION FOIR AUMTORS

The ICroober Anthropolorical Society PPers publish ar4ieles I1 the

general field of anthropology, including those which it is difficult, for

various reasons, to publish elsewhere. In addition to arti?les of theoret-
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information on record. as well as bibliographies, linguistic texta, vocabu-
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Editor

Kroeber Anthropological Society

c/o The Departaeat of Anthropology,
University of Calitornia
.Borkel*y 4, California

ACXNOWLED(KHMES

We vish to express our sincere thanks to all those whose genrous

assistance, through all phases of preparation and publications, m    possible
this Isase of the Papers. Special thanks go to John H. Rowe, who astfaculty
advisor to our Society has been of constant assistance and support.

We also gratefully acknowledge the financial assistane* given us by the
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Rseareh. Their generous grant
for publishing equipmeat has made possible the continuing suceas of our
publication.

The Exeeutive CMittee

THE KROEBER ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY PAPERS
Number 18                   Spring, 1958

Published by the Kroeber Anthropological Society

Bruce Drewitt, President; Richard Randolph, Vice President;
Madge Richardson, Secretary; Stanley Byrne, Treasurer;

James Mackie, Program Chairman; Thomas S. Chambers, Chair-
man of Annual Meeting; James Hatch, Bernd Lambert, Paul E.
Simonds, Co-editors,,

Address all correspondence to:

The Kroeber Anthropological So.ciety
c/o The Department of Anthropology
University of California
Berkeley 4, California

Cover design for 1958-59 by Jack E. Smith,, University of

California, Berkeley. The 1958 cover design is adapted from
a Northwest coast representation of a killer whale.

CONTENTS

An Area Co-tradition for Mesoamerica, by Morton H.

Levine                                                          1
A Survey of Ethnohistoric Sources, by James H.

Gunnerson                                                      49
An "Indigenous" New Guinea Cult, by Richard F.

Salisbury                                                      67
The Romantic Role of Older Women in a Culture of the

Pacific Northwest Coast, by Melville Jacobs                    79
Dissertations in Anthropology                                       87

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INTRODUCTION

The article by Morton H. Levine completes the series of

selected papers from the Harvard Middle American Archaeological Seminar,
1955-56, which was begun in our previous issue.

James H. Gunnerson is Curator of the Museum of Anthropology at
the University of Utah.

Richard F. Salisbury is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at
the University of California, Berkeley0

Melville Jacobs is Professor of Anthropology at the University of
Washington, Seattle.

The editors wish to express their thanks to Mrs. Mildred Vera for
proof-reading the articles, and to Allan D. Coult, who as editor in
Fall, 1958, was responsible for preparing several of the manuscripts
for publication.

The price of single copies of back issues has been raised from

$1.75 to $2.00 for non-members, but will continue to be $1.50 for members
of the Society. Numbers 2 and 4, previously reported as being out of
print, are now once more available.