Reports of the

UNIVERSITY OF&ALIFORNIA
,ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY

No. 12

PAPES ON CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGY: 13-16

Issued November 1, 1951

The University of California Archaeological Survey

Department of Anthropology

University of California
Berkeley 4. California

PAPERS IN CALIFORNIA ARCHAEOLOGY: 13-16

13. Leon de Cessac..
14. E. Harry.

15. Harry S. Riddell.
16. William Wallace.

Cont ents

Observations on the Sculptured Stone

Fetishes in Animal Form Discovered on

San Nicolas Island (California)....,.......... 1

The French Scientific Expedition to

California, 1877-1879a...l..l......e.........    6

The Archaeology of a Paiute Village Site;

in Owens Valley. .                            1 . . .... *. . . . W  . I  . *  . . . . . , . . . 4
The Archaeological Deposit in Moaning            I

Cave, Calaveras County.,                       29

I1 1 u s t r a t i o n s

Plate 1.
Map 1.
Map 2.

Figure 1.
Figure 2.
Figure 3.
Figure 4.

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Stone "fetishes" from San Nicolas Island.................     5
Contour map of Cottonwood Creek site (Iny-2)............. 28
Known range of Owens Valley brown ware..................9 28
Projectile point and drill forms from Iny-2 .............. 28
Cross-section of Moaning Cave..........     .............. 29
Cross-section of archaeological deposit, Moaning Cave..... 29
Artifacts from Moaning Cave (Cal-13).........-.......... 37