Karok Myths by KROEBER A. L and GIFFORD E. W - (1980)

Berkeley: University of California Press, (1980). First edition. dark tan cloth lettered and decorated in brown on spine. Fine/pictorial dust jacket (very slight wear). Quarto. Illustrated with photographs “In the early summer of 1902 when Alfred Kroeber, a young anthropologist at the University of California at Berkely, was on his second field trip among the Indians of northwest California. He had previously been with the Yurok and how was headed upstream to collect texts of mythological materials from the neighboring Karok ...nearly forty years later E. W. Gifford took up the Karok study where Kroeber left off ... he collected more that 160 tales and formulas - for healing, for childbirth, for hunting luck - and along with Kroeber’s notes are published for the first time” from dust jacket.