Tipai ethnographic notes : a Baja California Indian community at mid-century /

As a graduate student in anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, William Hohenthal spent two summers and a spring collecting ethnographic data among the Tipai Indians of northern Baja California. At the time of the study (1948-51) there were fewer than 200 Tipai individuals left, living on farms and ranches scattered in valleys and arroyos east of Tijuana. Hohenthal collected data on a wide range of topics--natural environment, social organization, subsistence, material culture, law, religious beliefs and practices, healing, and more. The data were never published, however. Blackburn (California State Polytechnic Univ.), an authority on the Chumash Indians of California, and Ballena Press, niche publisher of numerous books and serials concerning California Indians, have edited Hohenthal's report on the Tipai and supplemented it with several pertinent appendixes and an updated bibliography. Interest in this compendium of information concerning one group of Baja California Indians will likely be limited to specialists of that region. Graduate students and up. P. R. Sullivan independent scholar