Record details

• ISBN: 0803293496 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780803293496 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: xii, 105 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
• Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Originally published: Forty-second Annual report of the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology, 1928, in series: Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [101]) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Origin legends -- Terms of relationship -- Birth relationships -- Marriage relationships -- Further notes on the terms used by a woman -- Supplementary terms -- Personal names -- Social organization -- Government -- Property rights -- Crime and punishment -- Regulations regarding women -- Childbirth and education of children -- Marriage customs -- Division of labor between the sexes -- Burial customs -- War customs -- Hunting -- Games -- Measures and intercommunication -- Religious beliefs in general -- The fate of souls -- Dances -- The Pishofa ceremony -- Doctoring and medicines.

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Chickasaw Indians.
Indians of North America > Social life and customs.