Book
The vanishing race : selections from Edward S. Curtis' The North American Indian
Record details
- ISBN: 0888945825 (D&M) :
- ISBN: 9780888945822 (D&M)
- ISBN: 0295965134 (UWP)
- ISBN: 9780295965130 (UWP)
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Physical Description:
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192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, 1987.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. Originally published: Newton Abbot [England] : David & Charles, 1976. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | General Description : The Comanche -- Homelands and habitations : Home of the Havasupai -- The environment and houses of the Kwakiutl -- Staple foods of the Mono homeland -- The nomadic life of the Apsaroke (or Crows) -- Hopi homeland -- Historical sketches : The Spaniards arrive at Acoma -- The final suppression of the Cheyenne -- Disease and drunkenness attack the Piegan -- Washo contact with the white man -- US government treatment of the Indians of California -- Religious beliefs and practices : Religious beliefs of the Wichita -- Child fetishes of the Santo Domingo Keres -- The potency of charm words for Coastal Salish peoples -- Nez Perce fasting -- The inter-tribal peyote cult -- Tribal organisation : Apache tribal organisation -- Teton Sioux (or Lakota) tribal government -- The Kwakiutl economic system -- Hopi traditionalism -- Social customs : Social customs of the Zuni -- The naming and cradling of Wichita children -- Child rearing customs of Coastal Salish peoples -- Child rearing practices of Nootkan peoples -- Apsaoke child rearing customs -- Coastal Salish games -- Hopi games and running -- Hupa: the guessing game -- Nootkan courting customs -- Hupa sexual customs -- Miwok: marriage and taboos -- Haida: marriage breakdown -- Sexual customs of the western Woods Cree -- Mohave mortuary customs -- Ceremonies : The Luiseno girls' puberty rite -- The Kutenai Bear ceremony -- Hidatsa: the ceremony of the bowl -- Tricks performed by Arikara medicine fraternities -- Navajo: the night chant -- Arts and crafts : Navaho material culture -- The painting of tipis by the Sarsi -- Yokuts basketry -- Kutenai canoes -- Alaskan Eskimo kaiaks -- Kwakiutl theatrical practices -- Food, hunting and fishing : An Apsaroke winter hunt (as related by hunts to die) -- Piegan: offering the white buffalo skin -- Some Salishan hunting practices -- Rabbit hunting by the Keres of Cochiti -- Sarsi: the hunting of eagles -- Some Kwakiutl hunting practices -- Some Coastal Salish fishing and hunting customs |
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| Subject: | Indians of North America |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | E 77 .G53 1976 | 250020 | Stacks | Available | - |
| Lummi Library | E 77 .G53 1976 | 269605 | Stacks | Available | - |