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
Book