A Review of The Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere

The Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere. By Travis Hudson and Thomas C. Blackburn. Los Altos, Calif.: Ballena Press Anthropological Papers, Nos. 25, 27, 28, 30, and 31, 1979-1986. 5 Volumes 2038 pages. Volume 1: $34.95 Cloth, $19.95 Paper; Volumes 2 and 3: $39.95 Cloth, $24.95 Paper; Volume 4: $47.95 Cloth, $29.95 Paper; Volume 5: $41.95, Paper $28.95. Five volume set: $190.00 Cloth, $120.00 Paper. The five volumes of The Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere present a compilation of all discovered ethnographic notes concerning the traditional material culture of several native southern California societies. The ethnographic notes of John Peabody Harrington represent the largest portion of the data. Other ethnographic sources are incorporated, and photographs of many ethnographic and some archaeological specimens are used to illustrate many artifact types. Most of the ethnographic data were previously available only as unpublished notes. Hudson and Blackburn have carefully organized these notes and incorporated most published references to artifacts. Photographs of many of the numerous ethnographic specimens illustrated in these volumes have never been published previously and they provide important documentation of Chumash material culture