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Title: A Burial Cave in Baja California
The Palmer Collection, 1887

Author: William C. Massey
Carolyn M. Osborne

Release Date: November 1, 2009 [EBook #30385]

Language: English

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A BURIAL CAVE IN BAJA
CALIFORNIA

THE PALMER COLLECTION, 1887

BY
WILLIAM C. MASSEY AND CAROLYN M. OSBORNE

ANTHROPOLOGICAL RECORDS
Vol. 16, No. 8

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS
ANTHROPOLOGICAL RECORDS

Editors (Berkeley): J. H. Rowe, R. F. Millon, D. M. Schneider
Volume 16, No. 8, pp. 339-364, plates 12-17, 7 figures in text,
2 maps

Submitted by editors May 16, 1960
Issued May 12, 1961
Price, $1.00

University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles
California

Cambridge University Press
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PREFACE

In 1888 an archaeological collection of material from Bahia de Los
Angeles in Baja California was deposited in the United States National
Museum by Dr. Edward Palmer. Although the material was duly catalogued,
together with Dr. Palmer's notes, it has gone undescribed until the
present.

Dr. Robert F. Heizer called this collection to the attention of the
senior author in 1948. At that time the archaeology of Baja California
was receiving emphasis at the University of California because of
the interest of the Associates in Tropical Biogeography, under the
chairmanship of Dr. C. O. Sauer. The late Professor E. W. Gifford, then
Curator of the Museum of Anthropology at the University of California,
arranged with Dr. T. Dale Stewart of the United States National Museum
for a temporary study loan of the collecti