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Title: History of Yuba County, California, with illustrations descriptive of its scenery, residences, public buildings, fine blocks and manufactories
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Chamberlain, William Henry, 1855- Wells, Harry Laurenz, 1854-1940
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Publisher: Oakland, Calif. : Thompson & West
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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personal identity to remain, I shall ven-ture a few remarks on the Aborigines of California.In stature the California Indian rather exceeds theaverage of the tribes east of the mountains. He isheavier limbed and stouter built. They are a hairyrace, and some of them have beards that would dohonor to a Turk. The color, similar to that of theAlgonquin race, or perhaps rather lighter. The vis-age short and broad, with wide mouth, thick lips,short, broad nose, and extremely low forehead. Insome individuals the hair grows quite down to theeyebrows, and they may be said to have no foreheadat all. Some few have that peculiar conformation ofthe eye so remarkable in the Chinese and Tartar races,and entirely different from the common AmericanIndian or the Polynesian; and with this unpromisingset of features, seme have an animated and agreeableexpression of countenance. The general expressionof the wild Indian has nothing of the proud and loftybearing or the haughtiness and ferocity so often seen
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Birds Eye View of STRAWBERRY VALLEY. North East Tp. Yuba Co. HISTORY OF YUBA COUNTY CALIFORNIA 9* ,t 01 the mi untains. It is more commonly indicative of timidity and stupidity. The men and childrenare absolutely and entirely naked, and the dmthe women is tlio least possible or conceivable removifrtm nudity. Their food varies with the season. InKebruary and March tbey live on grass and herbage;clover smd wild pea-vine are among the best kind oftheir pasturage. I have often seen hundreds of themgrazing together in a meadow, like so many cattle.(If Dcctor Boudinot only knew this fact, lie wouldundoubtedly start a new theory that they are thedescendants of Nebuchadnezzar.) They are very poorhunters of the larger animals, but very skillful inmaking and managing nets for fish and food. Theyalso collect in their season great quantities of the seedsof various grosses, which aro particularly abundant.Acorns aro another principal articlo i f food, whichare larger, more abundant, and of better

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