Author: LOEB, E.M.
Title: The Western Kuksu Cult + The Eastern Kuksu Cult. [Two-volume set].
Description: Berkeley, University of California Press, 1932-1933. vi,232 pp. Original wrappers. With map, 1 figure in text, and large folding table - Series: University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology - Volume 33, No. 1 + 2 - Edwin Meyer Loeb (1894-1966) - Anthropologist - Kuksu cult, a religion of secret societies and rituals that spread to a number of California tribes. The cult's main purposes were to bring strength to young male initiates, to bring fertility to natural crops, and to ward off natural disasters. - Wrappers damaged, and traces of age throughout - still a good and complete 2-volume set

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