Treasures from Native California: The Legacy of Russian Exploration

by Craig D. Bates, Travis Hudson, Craig D Bates

Book Overview

The brief Russian presence in California yielded some of the earliest ethnography of Native Californians and some of the best collections of their material culture. Unstudied by western scholars because of their being housed in Russian museums, they are presented here for the first time in an English language volume. Descriptions of early nineteenth-century travelers such as von Wrangel and Voznesenskii are followed by a catalog of objects ranging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611329833
• ISBN13: 9781611329834
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 10.9"