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Los Angeles: Southwest Museum, 1972. Hardcover. As New with no dust jacket. Red cloth decorated covers, Southwest Museum Papers No. 23. The Maru cult was a survivor of the Ghost Dance spread by Paiute prophets in 1870 to Indians all over the US; its theme was giving up the ways of the whites...the Pomos strengthened their patterns of ceremonial life." 134 pages, b/w illustrations.; 7 x 10 1/2

Los Angeles, California: Southwest Museum. Very Good. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. "All informants for this particular example of Pomo Indian history now being dead, it remains the only record that has been written down. Descriptions of ceremonies are detailed enough to allow for restaging by future Indians or other generations who might wish to recreate the older ceremonies." - page ix. x,134 pages. Black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Footnotes & References. Faint erasure and whited-out name atop front free endpaper otherwise very clean, tight and bright with very light wear. An attractive copy. ; Southwest Museum Papers Number Twenty-Three; 4to .