UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS IN AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY VOLUME XL 1942-1953 EDITORS E. W. GIFFORD A. L. KROEBER R. H. LOWIE T. D. McCOWN D. G. MANDELBAUM R. L. OLSON UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS BERKELEY AND LOS ANGELES 1956 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS BERKELEY AND Los ANGELES CALIFORNIA CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON, ENGLAND IPRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS PAGES i. Studies in Plains Indian Folklore. 1-28 R. H. Lowie 2. Notes on Pomo Ethnogeography .29-62 Omer C. Stewart 3. Washo-Northern Paiute Peyotism: A Study in Acculturation . . . . 63-142 Omer C. Stewart 4. Textile Periods in Ancient Peru. III: The Gauze Weaves .143-222 Lila M. O'Neale and Bonnie Jean Clark 5. The Quantitative Investigation of Indian Mounds, with Special Refer- ence to the Relation of the Physical Components to the Probable Mate- rial Culture 223-262 S. F. Cook and A. E. Treganza 6. The Fossilization of Human Bone: Calcium, Phosphate, and Carbonate 263-280 S. F. Cook 7. The Physical Analysis of Nine Indian Mounds of the Lower Sacramento Valley .281-312 S. F. Cook and R. F. Heizer 8. Paracas Cavernas and Chavin'. 313-348 A. L. Kroeber