Produced by Colin Bell, Joseph Cooper and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ANTHROPOLOGICAL RECORDS 16:4 THE ABORIGINAL POPULATION OF ALAMEDA AND CONTRA COSTA COUNTIES, CALIFORNIA BY S. F. COOK UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS BERKELEY AND LOS ANGELES 1957 THE ABORIGINAL POPULATION OF ALAMEDA AND CONTRA COSTA COUNTIES, CALIFORNIA BY S. F. COOK ANTHROPOLOGICAL RECORDS Vol. 16, No. 4 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS ANTHROPOLOGICAL RECORDS Editors (Berkeley): J. H. Rowe, R. F. Heizer, R. F. Murphy, E. Norbeck Volume 16, No. 4, pp. 131-156 3 maps Submitted by editors November 7, 1956 Issued June 21, 1957 Price, 50 cents University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles California Cambridge University Press London, England Manufactured in the United States of America CONTENTS Page Introduction 131 The Fages-Crespi Expedition 131 The Anza-Font Expedition 132 The Cañizares Expedition 136 Exploratory and punitive expeditions, 1776-1811 138 Fr. Antonio Danti's expedition 140 Raymundo el Californio's trip 141 Pedro Amador's expeditions 141 Luís Peralta's expeditions 143 The Cuevas Affair 144 Fr. José Viader's first expedition 145 Fr. Ramón Abella's expedition 145 Aboriginal Groups 146 Location 146 Population estimates 148 Bibliography 150