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THE KROEBER ANTHROPOLOGICAL

SOCIETY PAPERS

Number 35

Dale Valory, Editor

Susan MacCullogh, Peter W. Steager, Janet Tallman,

Assistant Editors

Published by the

Kroeber Anthropological Society

Philip C. Grant, President, Thomas W. Johnson, Vice

President, Sylvia Forman, Secretary, Rosalind Ribnick,
Treasurer, Scott H. Ryerson, Program Chairman, Ronald

Johnson, Membership Chairman

Berkeley, California

Fall, 1966

CONTENTS

The Season of Birth in Man: The Northern New World,

by Ursula M. Cowgill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Plank Canoes of South and North America, by Robert

F. Heizer.                  .22
Scattering Flowers, a poem by George Hitchcock . .      40
Humanity, What Is It? an interview with Claude Levi-

Strauss.                    .41
Edwin Meyer Loeb, 1894-1966, a memorial and biblio-

graphy, by Gertrude Toffelmier.         .54
The Focus of Indian Shaker Healing, by Dale Valory . 69

Cover Design

Runic carving and inscription from the Sjusta Boulder,

Uppland, Sweden, from Sven Janssen's Runes of Sweden.

Drawn by Peter W. Steager.