Survival Skills of Native California
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Published: January 19, 2000
Place of publication: Salt Lake City, NV
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9780879059217
Subjects: Outdoor survival skills; Sports & Recreation; Native American Sociology; Outdoor Survival Techniques; Social Science; Sociology; North America; Outdoor Skills; Social Science / Native American Studies; Indians of North America; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; California; Industries; Life skills guides; Material culture
First sentence: There is no machine on earth so potent, yet so simple and elegant, as the two sticks of the Native American fire drill; a hearth piece, the female element-according to Ishi, who emerged in 1911 from forty years of concealment in the California bush as the last "wild Indian" of North America- and the drill itself, an approximately 1/2-inch by 2-foot-long rod, the male element or "man piece."
Table of contents: title: Preface: The Wisdom of the California Hunter-Gatherer; title: Introduction: Secrets of Indian Survival; title: Basic Skills, Tools of Gathering and Food Preparation, Implements of Household and Personal Necessity
label: Part 1; title: Hunting and Fishing
label: Part 2