Territoriality undated

Pai Pai Pinon Nut Camp undated

Pai Pai notes circa 1951-1957

Pai Pai with farmer undated

Communities undated

Linguistics 1964

Typed notes- [Alamo Plains] undated

"The 31 Missions of Baja California" undated

Chart of "Principal Aspects of Baja California Rock Record" undated

Notes on "Sales 1772-1790" and trade undated

Grunion, Abulon, and boats undated

"Field Notes, Santa Catarina 4-2-70, Maroma, Pai-lip" 1970

["Rufino Ochurte"] 1968

"Rufino- Notes on Hunting" 1964

"Havasupai- Pai Pai Meeting" 1975

History and language undated

Pai Pai - "Relate the Four Mythical ancestral characters to General Theory..." undated

Relationship Diagram undated

"Aboriginal tech items that Indians use today not modified..." undated

Ancestral Myth undated

Family name tables undated

Bill Hendricks, Director of Sherman Library 1969

Food, Language, Historical Overview undated

Day by day count on Indians visiting San Pablo and Santa Catarina undated

[Book chapter outline] undated

List of Indian names undated

Mary Kay listening to Juan Arvallo undated

Kiliwa terms undated

Kinship undated

Definitions of words and identification of stones and fibers undated

Field notes on Kiliwa language undated

"Memorial to Rufino Uchurte" 1977

Field notes: Kiliwa words "Rufino Cigarettes, Tabacco Coyote, ejip milti undated

"Kelly ref, 'Kell-y, Wm. H. 1942, AA.44 4'" 1942

Field notes: "Informant: Rufino Ochurte" on his death 1962

Kiliwa film undated

"Land and Life in Mexico: Baja California: A supplemental outline for Baja California history" 1964

"Resources of the Pacific Slopes: Excerpt of Indian tribes and Languages of the Peninsula" 1887

"Lost Silver Ledge" undated

Well Digger: Seferino 1921

"Anthropologists Warned" undated

"Bibliography of the Anthropology of Baja California" undated

Kwatl lineage undated

Rufino Description undated

Questions regarding book undated

Index undated

Table of contents for book undated

Punch cards: Helen Smith's interviews with Mrs. Salvado and Meling 1965

Current affairs and Indian clippings circa 1966-1980

"An Outline History of Baja California" undated

Pai Pai notes on Shamul and other linguistic material undated

Cordage and pottery 1965-1966

[Interview of Alberta Meling and Aida Meling Barre] 1976

Baja California Symposium XIV 1976

Anita Alvarez de William 1972-1975

Amigos del Antano 1969

Roger Owens to Florence Shipek 1969

Ralph Michelsen from Peveil Meigs 1974

From Margaret Langdon 1966

From Bailey L. Abbott 1969

Lee. H. Watkins to M.S. Smith 1967

From Mauricio Mixco and response of Ralph Michelsen 1966

Route to the Kailiwa Indians undated

Baja California circa 1903

Field notes and Ralph Michelsen talk 1984

Questions and answers: acculturation in lower socio-economic levels of society circa 1972

Lecture Series "Human Adaptation in the Sonoran Desert: Past and Present" 1972

"Logos Signum Pottery" undated

"Logos Signum Cordage" undated

"In Defense of Trivia" by Ralph Michelsen 1973

Field notes: "America's First Filter Cigarettes" and response undated

"A Preliminary Bibliography on the Anthropology of Baja California" and "A Preliminary Bibliography on the Anthropology of Tijuana" 1968

"The Construction of a Kiliwa House" undated

"The Man Who Talked to Snakes" undated

"The Mountain Tribes of Northern Baja California, Mexico" 1951-1981

"Field Work Palli Wilson 3/28-5/3 1972, Santa Catarina Baja California, Mexico 1972

"Some Successes and Failures of Community Development Projects in Two Band Level Societies" 1969

"Plant Life of Baja California" 1964

"Mobile Band Societies and Systematic Culture Theory: A Dilemma" by R.C. Owen 1971

"English Translation of Guia Familiar de Baja California" by Pablo Martinez undated

"Indian Tribes of Northern District Lower California, Mexico" 1918

"On Rancho Neje" 1969

"Espinosa" by Phil Meling 1966

"Proto-Northern Yuman- Pai Pai So Far" by Alan Shaterian 1966

"Indian Tribes of Northern District Lower California, Mexico" by David Goldbaum 1918

"AKWA'LA-PAI PAI" 1957

Aberrant Metate paper 1966

"Baja California in Anthropological Theory: Desert Adaptation, Cul-de-sac, Frontier, and Border" by John A. Price 1968

"Sound Symbolism in Yuman Languages" Margaret Langdon undated

"Proto-Yuman Verb Morphology" by Margaret Langdon 1966

"A Comparative Study of Yuman Consonantism" by Alan Campbell 1968

[Drawings by E.M. Elliot] undated

"A Preliminary Ethnographic Survey of Tecate Mexico" by John A. Price 1968

"In Lower California" by H.W. Scorly 1976

"The Antiquity of Humans in the New World: Stones and Bones" by Rodger C. Owens 1981

Notes by Ralph Michelsen on article on Pai Pai paddle and anvil pottery 1977

"Santa Catarina's People" Surviving Yuman-Speaking Native Americans in Baja California, Mexico- An Anthropological Investigation" draft by Rodger C. Owen and Ralph Michelsen undated

"Baja Big Game Hunt" by Ralph C. Michelsen 1964

"Musical Culture and Ethnic Solidarity: A Baja California Case Study" 1969

"Among the Cocopahs" by Captain Newton H. Chittenden" 1901

"Kiliwa Texts" by Mauricio J. Mixco 1976

"Capitulio V Mexico" by R. Velasco Ceballos 1920

"A Baja California Jornada to Mission Santa Catarina De Los Yumas" 1938

"Deceptive Barrenness; the desert conceals food sources that Prehistoric people knew how to how to exploit. Will modern man do as well?" by Richard S. Felger and Gary Paul Nabhan 1976

Republica Mexicana, MULEGE Baja California 1980

"Archaeological Sites in the Jamau- Jaquijel Region, Baja California: A Preliminary Report" by F.N. Hicks 1959

"An Archaeological Reconnaissance of Northeastern Baja California and Southeastern California" by Alan E. Treganza 1942

America Indigena v. XXIII 1963

[Mauricio J. Mixco: Journal of American Linguistics and letter] 1977

"Some Surviving Yuman Groups in Northern Baja California" by Thomas B. Hinton and R.C. Owen 1957

"The Making of Paddle and Anvil Pottery at Santa Catarina Baja California, Mexico by Ralph Michelsen 1966

"Musical Culture and Ethnic Solidarity: A Baja California Case Study" by Rodger C. Owen, Nancy E. Walstrom, and Ralph C. Michelsen 1969

Memorial to Rufino Uchurte in The Journal of California Anthrolopology 1977

"The Kiliwa : Hunters and Gatherers of Baja California" A film by Ralph C. Michelsen undated

"Kamia and Kumeyaay" by Margaret Langdon 1975

Ethnohistory 1960

Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly (PCASQ) publications 1970-1977

"Ethnographic Notes on Agave Fiber Cordage" by Ralph C. Michelsen 1974

"A Pinon Harvest by Pai Pai Indians" by Ralph and Mary Kay Michelsen 1979

"The Construction of a Kiliwa House" by Ralph C. Michelsen 1977

"A Keruk Ceremony at Santa Catarina, Baja California, Mexico" 1967

"Pecked Metaates of Baja California" undated

"Memorial to Rufino Uchurte" 1977

"Kiliwa Kinship Terms" by Ralph Michelsen undated

"The Making of Paddle and Anvil Pottery at Santa Catarina, Baja California, Mexico" 1966

"Ecological Aspects of Aboriginal Culture in the Western Yuman Area" [and correspondence] 1963-1969

Thesis of a friend of Anita Alvarez de Williams who wrote the letter in Spanish and Letter to Ralph from author of Cocopah People and Travelers Among the Cocopah circa 1973

[Pai Pai Indians field notes] 1966

Petra Higuera collecting and roasting mescal to be used in making 1966

"Pietra Higuera wielding mescal chisel" and "scraping edge to remove spines" 1966

"Only heart of plant is taken" and "Heart of plant usually furnishes 7 to 10 suitable leaves" 1966

"Leaves are separated from heart on the spot in order to discard unsuitable leaves" 1966

"Most of the sharp points of the leaves are removed before using the chisel as a safety precaution" and "Carrying net. Julquá." 1966

"This net was made by Juana Gonzales before 1956" 1966

"In the foreground is the pit prepared for roasting the mescal, covered with the brush for fuel which Petra is igniting" 1966

"After the brush and some medium sized trunks have burned to coals most of the coals are pulled out of the fire" and "the leaves of the mascal are laid out in the ashes and coals in an orderly fashion" 1966

"Note that all leaves are placed inside face down" 1966

"Ashes and coals are shoveldover the mescal. Sand is used to cover the coals" 1966

"The charred trunks that had been put aside previously now come into good use as they are pladed on top of the sand to help kindle a new fire" 1966

"Material left in pit from three P.M. until sun rise in the following day" and "Mecal leaves are laid on a flat piece of wood and scraped with a small abalone shell" 1966

"Petra Higuera preparing mescal fibers for making cordage" 1966

"First scraping of leaf. Child is granddaughter, Amalia" 1966

"Roasted leaf is peeled from the butt end for about half of its length" and "only the lower half of the leaf is scrapedat this stage of the operation" 1966

"Scraping with abalone shell" and Squeezing pulp from half peeled leaf" 1966

[Scraping of abalone shell] 1966

"Outside wall of cooking shelter" 1966

"Inside of kitchen shelter" 1966

"Tools and materials for scraping" and "Husk of pointed end of leaf is removed by placing the foot on the already peeled lower portion, wrapping the fingers around the scraped fibers and pulling them apart" 1966

"Scraping upper end of leaf" 1966

"Scraped fibers are rinsed twice in warm water" 1966

"After rinsing material is separated into even bunches and laid out to dry" 1966

"Dried material is laid in a bed of damp sand which keeps it moist enough to work while rolling into strands" and "Rolling into strands is done on the lower leg" 1966

"Dampened material is taken for the sand pile in bundles and the fibers are separated into a strand of the proper tickness for whatever use the cordage is put" 1966

Mescal fibers cordage 1966

"Preliminary strands are rolled first which will later be rolled into a two strand cord" and "The pan holds ashes which are rubbed on the leg hand and fingers" 1966

"This is actually the first step in rolling a preliminary strand" and "When the two short section are rolled it then becomes possible to roll the full length of the preliminary strand into a loosely rolled cord" 1966

"All of the rolling of the preliminary strand is done from the end where the short section if two strand roll was first made" 1966

"Corn field the maker, Petra Higuera" and "House of son of Petra about 150 yards to the east of Petras house" 1966

"Fibers being pulled from their place in the damp sand" and "Rolling the preliminary strands into the finished cord" 1966

"Taravilla which is probably a Spanish innovation, is a tool used for tightening the twist of the finished cord, however their is a word in the Pai Pai dialect for the apparatus" 1966

"Rolling" and "Splicing" 1966

"Rolling in a splice" and "Looking down on sleeping room to the right and the cooking shelter to the left" 1966

"Pai Pai houses are often built next to or very near to large boulders" 1966

"Each time a hand motion is made for the roll of the fingers of the left hand the two strands until there is pressure against the roll" 1966

"Looking at rear of kitchen shelter to the right" 1966

[Dogs] 1966

"Petra tying a net. Petra and Pricilia Flores gathering clay to be used in making ollas" 1966

"After the cord has been twisted very tightly it is stretched and left overnight to set itself permanently" 1966

"Petra's method of holding her fingers to wind the cordage for storage" 1966

"Nets are tied to a post by means of a loose loop as shown below" 1966

"Fingers are used to gauge the mesh size" and "The knots are square knots" 1966

[Knot tying] 1966

[Net weaving] 1966

"This is the preferred source of clay for making pottery at Santa Catarina" and "Concentrations of stones that have been tossed aside in order to remove the hard clay" 1966

"The digging stick was resharpened" 1966

"Clods are chosen for their hardness and fineness of grain" 1966

"Amalia, Petras granddaughter, laid out a rectangle of stones while she played" and "Amalia is typical of the small children in that shire often volunteered her help in small chores" 1966

[Digging] 1966

"Wild hair protuding from the chord is trimmed either with scissors of by singing with a small flame" 1966

"Petra finishing net. Grinding pinon nuts. Grinding clay for pottery. Winnowing" 1966

[Petra finishing net] 1966

"The cord continues from the last knot to lace up the side to tie the two edges together" 1966

[Petra's net] 1966

"The finished bag is filled with rocks to hang overnight to stretch and set into shape" 1966

[Petra filling her net with rocks] 1966

"Petra is breaking the shells from pinion nuts 1966

"Winnowing by short explosive breaths of air removes the cracked shells and leaves and nut meatsin the pan" and "the shelled nuts are ground to a paste" 1966

[Winnowing] 1966

[Amalia] 1966

"Clay is course ground" 1966

"Course ground clay is screened" and "Screened material is winnowed" 1966

"Petra Higuera grinding clay for the manufacture of paddle and anvil ollas. Mixing clay, beginning of olla on form, adding coil" 1966

"Second grinding of clay takes place after winnowing" 1966

[Petra grinding using a rock] 1966

[Petra hand grinding using a rock] 1966

"Horse manure is ground and mixed into the clay" 1966

"The ground clay is spread on a piece of burlap and formed into a mound with a hollowed center to receive the water" 1966

[Petra moistening clay] 1966

"The clay is mixed with water and kneaded into a very stiff consistency" 1966

"A tortilla of clay is formed between the hands and laid in a shallow depression in the sand which is covered with a cloth" and "Meanwhile the pottery form is covered with ashes to prevent the clat from sticking to the form" 1966

"The round flat formed clay is laid on the form and the padling begins" 1966

"It is paddled until it expands to a greater size" 1966

"A rope of clay is rolled between the palm of the hands" and "The edge of the paddled clay is dampened and the roll is laid and welded with short quick finger motions" 1966

"The weld is further blended in to the base with horizontal rubbing with the fingers" 1966

"Petra making pottery and Rufino Ochurte robbing honey" 1966

[Petra polishing pottery] 1966

[Petra sharpening a stick] 1966

"Rufino kindles a small fire in order to have small burning branches to make smoke" and "Rufino digs the bank until he can see the honey combs" 1966

"The honeycombs and the smoldering branch" 1966

[Rufino picks out the honeycomb] 1966

"Rufino takes about half the honey and leaves the rest to support the bees" 1966

"The entrance to the cave where the bees have their hive is blocked with stone" 1966

"Due to rain the paddling continued for two days" and "the bottom was quite dry so Petra polished it while still on the form" 1966

"This type of anvil is used for probably not much over one third of the area" 1966

"Note the some polishing has been done on harder base areas" 1966

"Pottery" 1966

[Petra polishing pottery] 1966

[Pottery laid out for view] 1966

"Note the use of the hand in place of the anvil" 1966

[Petra shaping the neck of the pottery] 1966

[Close up of Petra shaping the neck of the pottery] 1966

"Polishing stone is wet" 1966

[Petra polishing pottery neck and sides] 1966

[Petra and pottery] 1966

"Polished surface of olla before firing" and "Dry datil stalks are collected for firing the olla" 1966

[Petra and Amelia gathering plants] 1966

[Petra and Amelia returning from gathering] 1966

"Net partially loaded with dry detil stalks" 1966

"Fully loaded net"

"The net, being loaded to capacity, extended in both directions equally from the opening making it impractical to use the head strap" 1966

[Petra and Amalia returning from gathering] 1966

"Gathering tunas" 1966

[ Gathering tunas with Petra and Amalia]

"Tongs are made of willow" 1966

[Using willow tongs to gather tunas] 1966

[Petra carrying the full net and Amaria eating tunas] 1966

"Brush of weeds is used to rub away spines from the fruit" and "The net is shaken to agitate the tunas which eliminates any spines that remain after brushing" 1966

[Petra and granddaughter continue to gather tunas] 1966

[Petra looking into her net of tunas] 1966

"Firing pottery" 1966

"Amalia hold a bunch of weeds used to brush the tuna which she is eating" 1966

"Far right. Manuela Aguillar. To her right is her mother Petra Carrillo, A Kiliwa. The children are offspring of Manuela and a Mexican sometimes husband" 1966

[Aguilar and Carrillo family] 1966

"Drying the unfired olla" 1966

"Rocks laid in firing pit to receive the olla" and "Laying the olla on the rocks after the fire has been lighted" 1966

[Petra creating fire] 1966

[Petra firing the pot] 1966

[Petra feeding the fire] 1966

[Petra rotating the pot over the fire] 1966

[Petra covering the firing pot with plants] 1966

[Petra continuing to feed the fire] 1966

"Olla in fire. Petra using small net" 1966

"Olla in the fire" 1966

[Petra's fire] 1966

[Pot in the fire] 1966

[Petra carries pot back] 1966

[Petra carrying the fired pot] 1966

[Close up of Petra carrying pot] 1966

Survey of Pre-Columbian Meso-American Culture 1979

"Internal Reconstruction of Yuman Kinship Terminology" undated

Proposal to organize a series of three seminars 1969

Luiseno notes and publications 1963-1964

Game Classification 1966

Peon 1972-1980

"Ayelkwi" draft 1981

Peon notes: religion and belief, brujos, ayelkwi undated

Peon-related Hayonene by Ralph Michelsen undated

Peon for dissertation notes undated

Peon games at Rincon and Pechanga, Sabobam Malki 1970-1971

Peon game at Rincon by Ralph Michelsen 1975

Peon game analysis at Malki: Rincon 1970

Peon notes 1972-1979

Simulation of peon game: Ralph Michelsen and Malcolm Dow undated

Draft of dissertation abstract undated

Draft of dissertation introduction undated

Draft of dissertation chapter 11 undated

Draft of dissertation chapter 1 undated

History and distribution of peon for dissertation undated

First draft of Chapter 1 undated

Draft of dissertation preface of "handgames, games of chance, or strategy" undated

Play, number, signal, combination and score matrix for peon undated

"Faint sounds echoing from California's post" by Ralph Michelsen 1970

Peon 1967

Notes for dissertation on Parker peon games 1966-1967

Loose combinations derived from tied combinations numbers 9-16, One man. 1 sheet of move combinations undated

"The hard game of Peon, a description and analysis" by Ralph Michelsen undated

Peon paper presented at the Association For Anthropological Study of Play 1977

"Poe-the Purloined Letter" undated

Chapter outlines for dissertation undated

Peon notes undated

Peon games at Malki 1971

Dissertation proposal 1974

Notes and drafts of talks circa 1965

"The man who talked to snakes" undated

Draft "Peon Intro" by Ralph Michelsen undated

Peon, assembled by Frank Lobo circa 1889-1974

Mohave: ethnographic data on two lances [regarding] Bill W. 1965

Luiseno/ Juaneno notes undated

Campo fiesta flier undated

Letter from Ruth Almstedt to Ralph Michelsen: peon magic 1968

Letter from Rodger Owen to Ralph Michelsen 1976

Ralph Michelsen to Susan H. Boyd 1977

Letter from Bill Hendricks, Sherman Foundation to Ralph Michelsen 1969

Mission Indian Reservation 1938

"Some Coahuia songs and dances" by David P. Barrows 1895

"Critical Translations from Document Never Before Published in English" by Miguel Costanso undated

"The Amargosa Industry" by Malcolm J. Rodgers 1939

"Giant ground figures of the prehistoric deserts" by Emma Lou Davis and Sylvia Winslow 1965

"Letter from the Secretary of the Interior" 1894

"Cocopa attitudes and practices with respect to death and mourning" 1949

"Cocopa gentes" by William H. Kelly 1942

Notebook by Ralph Michelsen undated

List of Seri items sold to a museum in Osaka, Japan 2004

Ralph Michelsen to Tom Hinton 1965

Thomas Bowen to Ralph Michelsen 1968

"The Seri" 1965

Holiday greetings from the Michelsen's by Mary-Kay Michelsen 1959

Visit to Nayarit and Cora 1959

"Some notes on the Cora Indians of Mexico" 1959

Notes on readings related to Cora undated

Maya 1970

"The Ancient Maya" talk by Ralph Michelsen undated

"Occupations and Income of the Indian population of Mexico" undated

Maya articles from a class circa 1973

Sun Trails Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1 1972

Women's roles by Ralph Michelsen undated

Reading list on notecards 1926

Cross cultural contacts by Ralph Michelsen 1981

Van Danigan film undated

Conflict resolution-political systems undated

From Ralph Michelsen to Davy (Emy Lou Davis) regarding a conference and archaeology 1967

"The effect of water control systems on social organization: an Example from the American Southwest" by Glen Rice 1975

"Maintenance of distance at the Flagstaff pow-wow" by Leanne Hinton circa 1978

"If the Navajo were inside the Soviet Union: A comparative approach to the Russian nationality policy" by Rein Taagepera and Ralph Michelsen 1973-1978

"Games and Social Behavior: The Case of Kwakiuti" by Christine Von Glascoe 1969

"The Americas: The Case against an Ice-age Human Population" by Rodger C. Owen and a letter from Rodger to Ralph Michelsen 1983

"Nationalism and human rights: processes of modernization in the USSR by Ihor Kamnetsky and a letter from Joseph Roucek 1978

[Tree and plant flashcards] undated

[Sources with notes: Seri, fiestas, and Peon] circa 1965

[Sources with notes: Yuman, Taipai, and Mojave] circa 1965

Ralph Michelsen biography for Academic Personnel at the University of California 1974

[Letters, memorial museum, post cards, Invitation to Celebrate Ralph's Life] 1960-1996

[Michelsen family holiday letter] 1994

"Fresh Start at 60- A Doctural Degree" 1974

Ralph Michelsen's Obituary, Laguna Beach Coastline 1996