December's Child
Subtitle: A Book of Chumash Oral Narratives
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Published: January 1976
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780520029309
Subjects: Chumash mythology; Folklore; Methodology; Chumash Indians
First sentence: Although the Chumash Indians seem to have engendered greater interest and respect among early explorers and missionaries than perhaps did any other group in California, they remain to this day a people shrouded in relative obscurity-an obscurity scarcely warranted by their obvious technological sophistication and general level of cultural complexity.