Plains Indian studies : a collection of essays in honor of John C. Ewers and Waldo R. Wedel

Ewers, John C. (John Canfield) 1909-1997 (Added Author). Wedel, Waldo R. (Waldo Rudolph) 1908-1996 (Added Author). Ubelaker, Douglas H. (Added Author). Viola, Herman J. (Added Author).

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Physical Description: iii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1982.

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John Canfield Ewers and the great tradition of artists and ethnologists of the West / William N. Fenton -- Waldo R. Wedel, archaeologist: perspectives that grew in the plains / James H. Gunnerson -- Reminiscences / T.D. Stewart -- An historical character mythologized: the scalped man in Arikara and Pawnee folklore / Douglas R. Parks -- Political assimilation on the Blackfoot Indian Reservation, 1887-1934: a study in survival / Thomas R. wessel -- "Look at my hair, it is Gray": age grading, ritual authority and political change among the Northern Arapahoes and Gros Ventre / Loretta Fowler -- History and identification of blood bands / Hugh A. Dempsey -- Laced coats and leather jackets: the Great Plains intercultural clothing exchange / James A. Hanson -- The Wichita Indians in the Arkansas River basin / Mildred Mott Wedel -- Shelling corn in the prairie-plains: archeological evidence and ethnographic parallels beyond the pun / David Mayer Gradwohl -- Bias in the zooarcheological record: suggestions for interpretation of bone counts in faunal samples from the plains / Brian Hesse -- Some observations on the central plains tradition in Iowa / John A. Hotopp -- Paleo-Indian winter subsistence strategies on the high plains / George C. Frison -- A critical review of archeological evidence relating to the antiquity of human occupation of the New World / Dennis J. Stanford.