Record details

• ISBN: 0816518343 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• ISBN: 9780816518340 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• ISBN: 0816518351 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• ISBN: 9780816518357 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• Physical Description: xv, 266 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
• Publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1998.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-258) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

I: Experience, dialogue, and ethnography -- Oklahoma -- Boy Scouts, hobbyists, and Indians -- Bound for "Indian country" -- Anthropology -- On ethnography -- II: Powwpws, the gourd dance, and Kiowa song -- Indian worlds -- On Powwow people -- Gourd dancing -- The Kiowa rattle dance revived -- On the songs -- Sound and knowledge -- Red Wolf, Satethieday, and Charlie Brown : on some of the Kiowa knowledge surrounding three gourd dance songs -- Fun, feeling song, and spirit -- Dear Lord, we come to you in prayer, tonight again.

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Subject:

Kiowa Indians > Music.
Kiowa Indians > Rites and ceremonies.
Kiowa dance.
Powwows > Oklahoma.