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North American Indian life : customs and traditions of 23 tribes / edited by Elsie Clews Parsons ; illustrated by C. Grant La Farge.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0486273776 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780486273778 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 419 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Dover Publications, 1992.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published: American Indian life / by several of its students. New York : B.W. Huebsch, 1922.
"Those plates originally in color have been converted to black and white for the present edition"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Preface / Elsie Clews Parsons -- Introduction / A.L. Kroeber -- Takes-the-pipe, a Crow warrior / Robert H. Lowie -- A Crow woman's tale / Robert H. Lowie -- A trial of shamans / Robert H. Lowie -- Smoking-star, a Blackfoot shaman / Clark Wissler -- Little-wolf joins the medicine lodge / Alanson Skinner -- Thunder-cloud, a Winnebago shaman, relates and prays / Paul Radin -- How Meskwaki children should be brought up / [dictated by] Harry Wilson [recorded by] Truman Michelson -- In Montagnais / Frank G. Speck -- Hanging-flower, the Iroquois / Alexander A. Goldenweiser -- The thunder power of Rumbling-wings / M.R. Harrington -- Tokulki of Tulsa / John R. Swanton -- Slender-maiden of the Apache / P.E. Goddard -- When John the jeweler was sick / told at St. Michael's, Arizona, by one of the Franciscan Fathers ; manuscript contributed by Stewart Culin ; A.M. Stephen -- Waiyautitsa of Zuñi, New Mexico / Elsie Clews Parsons -- Zuñi pictures / Stewart Culin -- Havasupai days / Leslie Spier -- Earth-tongue, a Mohave / A.L. Kroeber -- The chief singer of the Tepecano / J. Alden Mason -- The understudy of Tezcatlipoca / Herbert Spinden -- How Holon Chan became the true man of his people / Sylvanus G. Morley -- The Toltec architect of Chichen Itza / Alfred M. Tozzer -- Wixi of the shellmound people / N.C. Nelson -- All is trouble along the Klamath / T.T. Waterman -- Sayach'apis, a Nootka trader / Edward Sapir -- Windigo, a Chipewyan story / Robert H. Lowie -- Cries-for-salmon, a Ten'a woman / T.B. Reed and Elsie Clews Parsons -- An Eskimo winter / Franz Boas.
Subject:
Indians of North America > Folklore.
Indians of North America > Social life and customs.
Indians of Mexico > Social life and customs.

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