RBOC

• Here are two references for those of you who are working on basket caps (these ref.s  are intended to supplement Lila O'Neal's classic work on basket caps and Northwest California weavers, entitled Yurok-Karok Basket Weavers (1932); based on her Berkeley dissertation fieldwork). That book is a scholarly catalog (basket caps are in the Hearst Collection).

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  Lang, Julian (1994) "The Dances and the Regalia," in Indian Regalia of Northwest California. Pp. 14-21. Berkeley, CA: Hearst Museum of Anthropology, U of California Berkeley.
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  Kroeber, A.L (1905) "Basket Designs of the Indians of Northwestern California," University of California Publications [in] American Archaeology and Ethnology, Vol. 2 (4):104-164. Berkeley: The University Press. [also reproduced in facsimilie by Coyote Press]
• Need lab hours? Please go see two other exhibits currently showing  on campus right now. The first was installed by your classmate, Michele. It is showing in the Else Gallery in Kadema Hall. The other exhibit is in the Tsakopolous Gallery, in the University Library Gallery and titled “The Resistance and Relief." It examines the Greek American Operational efforts during WWII.
• I can also organize a field trip (at a time TBA, but definitely NOT during class hours) to tour the North Cental Information Center, located just off campus. This facility archives data related to archaeological sites and resources in the region. If you are interested in this opportunity, let me know what days and times (in early May) you might be interested and I will talk to grad student Kate Rich, to see when we can come by.
• Don't forget that you can visit the State Indian Museum Arts and Crafts this weekend. The flier is loaded to SacCT and you may accrue hours this way as well.
• Also, if you are headed up to/back from SWAA at the end of April/beginning of May (our annual conference is in Reno this year--the preliminary program is online), I hope you will stop by the Gatekeeper's Museum in Tahoe City, and visit the Marion Steinbach Indian Basket Museum housed onsite. Even if you've seen it in the past you will likely have far greater appreciation for it now that you have worked so closely with Cotton's basket collection.
• Does anyone know if the library basement stacks have reopened?
• In case you're just dropping in for the first time in a few days, be sure to read here.