[71] Gifford and Kroeber, _Culture Element Distributions, IV: Pomo_, pp. 207-208; Loeb, _Pomo Folkways_, p. 366; Barrett, _Ceremonies_, p. 425. The Kuksu staff was feathered on the end, whereas that of Calnis was somewhat shorter and did not have the feather tuft. Kroeber, _Handbook_, pp. 261-262; Loeb, _The Western Kuksu Cult_, pp. 110, 128. [72] They were manufactured chiefly by the Pomo and Northern Coast Miwok. See E. W. Gifford, _Clear Lake Pomo Society_, Univ. Calif. Publ. Am. Arch. and Ethn., Vol. XVIII, No. 2 (Berkeley, 1926), pp. 377-388; Kroeber, _Handbook_, p. 248; Kelly, "Coast Miwok Ethnography"; Gifford and Kroeber, _Culture Element Distributions, IV: Pomo_, (pp. 186-187). [73] Dixon, "The Northern Maidu," figs. 29, 30, Pl. XLIX. [74] Kelly, "Coast Miwok Ethnography." [75] Barrett, _Ceremonies_, p. 433; Loeb, _Pomo Folkways_, p. 178. [76] Cf. Barrett, _Ceremonies_, pp. 405, 438-439. [77] Illustrated in Kroeber, _Handbook_, fig. 20. See also Gifford and Kroeber, elements 88, 89; Barrett, _Ceremonies_, p. 432; Kelly, "Coast Miwok Ethnography." And see Dixon, "The Northern Maidu," Pl. XLVIII, fig. 25. [78] Gifford and Kroeber, element no. 4. Kelly, "Coast Miwok Ethnography." [79] Illustrated and described by Kroeber, _Handbook_, pl. 55, _a_, and pp. 264, 269, 388, and illustrated by Dixon, "The Northern Maidu," fig. 33. See also Gifford and Kroeber, elements nos. 81 ff.; Barrett, _Ceremonies_, pp. 407, 432; Loeb, _Pomo Folkways_, p. 200. The down-filled net cap was used by the Coast Miwok in the Kuksu and other ceremonial performances. [80] Dixon, "The Northern Maidu," figs. 19-21. [81] Kroeber, _Handbook_, fig. 21. [82] Barrett, _Ceremonies_, p. 407, n. 12. [83] Kelly, "Coast Miwok Ethnography"; Wagner, _Spanish Voyages_, pp. 158, 159 (Drake's Bay). [84] Loeb, _Pomo Folkways_, p. 158; Barrett, _Ceremonies_, pp. 407, 433; Gifford and Kroeber, _Culture Element Distributions: IV, Pomo_, element no. 96, pp. 207-208. [85] I can find no record that the down of milkweed (or of any other plant) was used. Most ethnographic accounts (see n. 79) above list the use of eagle down. That Fletcher was probably correct in attributing the source of the downy substance to a plant is shown by his reference to the seeds of the same plant. There is also the probability that he saw the plant itself on the journey into the interior. From my own observation I know that at least three different plants producing such down grow on Point Reyes. [86] Kelly, "Coast Miwok Ethnography." Dr. Kelly's informants at Bodega in describing just such baskets said, "They were just for show"--i.e., had no practical or utilitarian use. Her San Rafael informant also knew of such baskets.