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...leisure hours stretch out of sight. It is the magazine's ambition to fill every one of them. The current issue, for example, invites readers to make pomegranate jam, build a five-level child's bed, hide the garden gas meter with evergreen shrubs and watch the Karok Indians fish at California's Ishi Pishi Falls. "Everything we publish has to be something on which a reader can take action," says Sunset Editor Proctor Mellquist. "This gives us a very limited role in the field of urban planning. If our magazine has a social conscience...
From his log cabin in California's Siskiyou Mountains emerged 114-year-old Ned Rasper, a testy 85-lb. Karok Indian. He growled: "When I was a boy of 15 seasons, I saw my first white men. I thought they were some kind of new animal without skins, but they made signs so we fed them...
...University has received from Mr. Louis H. Farlow a large and comprehensive collection of household utensils, stone tools and dishes, fishing nets, games, weapons, and ceremonial objects, illustrating the art and customs of the Karok Indians of the Upper Klamath River in Northern California and of the Tolowa Indians of the same region. This is probably the most complete collection of old material in the country, comprising over 400 specimens...
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