The Material Culture of the Chumash Interaction Sphere, Vol. 4, Ceremonial Paraphernalia, Games, and Amusements. Travis Hudson and Thomas C. Blackburn, with illustrations by Georgia Lee. Ballena Press Anthropological Papers No. 30, Thomas C. Blackburn, editor. Ballena Press and Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Menlo Park and Santa Barbara, 1986. 457 pp., tables, illustrations, references, index. $47.95 (cloth), $29.50 (paper).

1988 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-216
Author(s):  
Jeanne E. Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Santa Barbara

scholarly journals The Columbellid species of the northeast Pacific coast from the Aleutian Islands to Cedros Island, Baja California (Neogastropoda: Columbellidae)

Zoosymposia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-183
Author(s):  
MARTA J. DEMAINTENON
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Baja California ◽  
Aleutian Islands ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
History Museum ◽  
Marine Snails ◽  
Northeastern Pacific ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
Cedros Island

The neogastropod family Columbellidae is a diverse cosmopolitan group of small marine snails, with its greatest diversity in the tropics. They are represented in high latitudes, but the columbellid fauna of higher latitudes tends to be much less well documented. The present paper documents the nearshore columbellid fauna of the northeastern Pacific Ocean, from the Aleutian Islands to Cedros Island, near the dividing point between Baja California and Baja California Sur. It is based on work by J.H. McLean, and completed posthumously. Examination of the regional columbellid collections in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History has resulted in 24 species in eight genera, of which four new species and one new genus are described herein. The present paper focuses on dry shell material.

scholarly journals A review of gorgonian coral species (Cnidaria, Octocorallia, Alcyonacea) held in the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History research collection: focus on species from Scleraxonia, Holaxonia, Calcaxonia – Part II: Species of Holaxonia, families Gorgoniidae and Plexauridae

ZooKeys ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 860 ◽  
pp. 67-182
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Anne Horvath
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
New Species ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Species Identification ◽  
Coral Species ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Gorgonian Coral ◽  
The Family ◽  
Research Collection ◽  
A New Species

Gorgonian coral specimens from the Holaxonia, families Gorgoniidae and Plexauridae held in the collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History (SBMNH) were reviewed and evaluated for species identification. The specimens were collected from within, and adjacent areas of, the California Bight. The SBMNH collection has encompassed within it a large percentage of specimens collected by the Allan Hancock Foundation (AHF) ‘Velero’ Expeditions of 1931–1941 and 1948–1985. This historic collection displays an emphasis on species belonging to the Holaxonia, particularly the gorgoniids and plexaurids; thus, this second part presents a thorough discussion of well-known genera from within the California Bight, with more extensive discussions of several genera that have historically, and currently, led to confusion (and thus, misidentification). A brief discussion of a California Bight grouping, referred to within as the “red whips,” is presented; this grouping encompasses several species with very similar colony appearance across a number of genera. Two species, the gorgoniid Leptogorgiachilensis (Verrill, 1868) and the plexaurid Chromoplexauramarki (Kükenthal, 1913) each required the designation of a neotype from within the collection. A new species in the genus Eugorgia Verrill, 1868, a whip or thread-like form belonging to the family Gorgoniidae, is described. One additional plexaurid genus (Placogorgia) is discussed, a genus not commonly reported for the California Bight region. This is the first comprehensive work, in three parts, focusing on all species of gorgonian coral known to inhabit the California Bight. This paper, Part II of the full work, continues the systematic review of all species represented in the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History research collection begun in Part I.

Gruesome models: European displays of natural history and anatomy and nineteenth-century literature

Interventions ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Talairach-Vielmas
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Anatomical Models ◽  
Nineteenth Century Literature ◽  
Gothic Novels ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Century Literature

In ‘Gruesome models: European Displays of Natural History and Anatomy and Nineteenth-Century Literature’ Laurence Talairach-Vielmas explores the process in which from the second half of the eighteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century, medical museums opened their doors throughout Europe and anatomical models circulated between Italy, Germany, France and England, serving to educate professional medical audiences and thrilling lay audiences keen on freaks and fairs. The chapter argues that the popularisation of anatomy and the circulation of anatomical models and modellers, exhibitions and anatomists throughout Europe was reflected in nineteenth-century literature, from Gothic novels to realistic narratives and even children’s fiction. Looking at the impact of the material culture of medicine upon the literary field, Talairach-Vielmas examines the relationship between literature and the European anatomical culture by exploring nineteenth-century narratives from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) in the first decades of the nineteenth-century to Charles Dickens’s fiction in the 1860s, analysing novels alongside travel guides and journal articles which demonstrate how the specific example of anatomy influenced the literary culture.

Ancient Population Centers of Santa Rosa Island

1951 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phil C. Orr
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Ancient Population ◽  
Surface Conditions ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Natural Surface ◽  
Indian Village ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Santa Rosa Island

As a result of work on Santa Rosa Island during 1947-1950, the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History has completed a survey which includes 142 ancient Indian village sites. On the California mainland intensive cultivation, construction and pot-hunting have pretty well eliminated the natural surface conditions of Indian sites, but on Santa Rosa Island, due to its isolation, there are many sites untouched by modern man. Consequently, it was possible to set up a system of classification of the sites undisturbed by civilization on a basis of natural physical conditions.

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