The bestknown work by the eccentric anthropologist Jaime de Angulo Indians in Overalls is a fascinating account of his first linguistic field tripampamp151in 1921ampamp151to the Achumawi tribe of northeastern California. The Pit River tribe had lived in the barren high country for thousands of years and despite the harsh climate and difficult living conditions they had developed an extraordinary complex language and a rich mythology.As he traveled with the tribe and learned the spoken language he observed gambling games and shamanistic practices and he collected some of the marvelous stories told around the fire in the winter lodges. Of all the people he worked with he felt closest to the Achumawi among whom he discovered ampamp147the spirit of wonder the recognition of life as power.