John Peabody Harrington
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John Peabody Harrington was an American linguist and ethnologist and a specialist in the indigenous peoples of California.
Harrington in 1924
Harrington (center), recording speakers of the Guna language
Chochenyo
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The Chochenyo are one of the divisions of the Ohlone, an Indigenous people of Northern California. The Chochenyo resided on the east side of the San Francisco Bay, primarily in what is now Alameda Cou
John Peabody Harrington
…hold this position for 40 years, collecting and compiling several massive caches of raw data on native peoples, including the Chumash, Mutsun, Rumsen, Chochenyo, Kiowa, Chimariko, Yokuts, Gabrielino, Salinan, Yuma, and Mojave, among many others. Harrington also extended his work into traditional culture…
The West Berkeley Shellmound, a Chochenyo shellmound