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This is an ethnographic studies of the original religious practices of the Native American residents of San Diego county. Chapters include: Customs Concerning Birth and Adolescence; Girls' Adolescence Ceremony; Boys' Adolescence Ceremony; Mourning Ceremonies; The Clothes-Burning Ceremony; The Feather Ceremony; The Whirling Dance, Tapakwirp; The Image-Burning; The Fire Ceremony; and more.