Pit River Indian

Pit′ Riv′er In′dian

(pɪt)
n.
a member of an American Indian people of NE California, inhabiting an area E of Mount Shasta and Lassen Peak.
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In documenting contemporary conditions instead of the precontact culture of the Pit River Indians, for example, de Angulo exclaims in one of his letters that he was writing what "i (sic) goddam please, and to hell with the publishers" (188).
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz. Rolling in Ditches with Shamans: Jaime de Angulo and the Professionalization of American Anthropology
The book's main body is then divided into four parts: (1) the 1931 study by Angulo and Beclard d'Harcouri; (2) an index compiled by Garland listing eighty-seven audiotapes by Angulo, as recorded on the Pacifica Radio programs, Old Time Stories; (3) twenty-six pages from Pit River Songz (sic, showing 25 songs collected from the Pit River Indians arranged in a graphic notation system; and (4) Song of Los Pesares, comprised of twenty short songs of Angulo's own composition in the same graphic notation as Part Three, plus two pages of music written in regular staff ascribed to Henry Cowell.
Jaime de Angulo: The Music of the Indians of Northern California
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