Record details

• Physical Description: xiv, 204 pages, 31 pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm
• Publisher: Washington : United States Government Printing Office, 1951.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Also issued as House document 624, 81st Congress, 2nd session.

With Note:

With : Journal of an expedition to the Mauvaises Terres and the Upper Missouri in 1850 / Culbertson, Thaddeus A. -- Arapaho child life and its cultural background / Hilger, M. Inez. -- Symposium on Local Diversity in Iroquois Culture / edited by William N. Fenton. Washington : G.P.O., 1951-1952. Bound together subsequent to publication.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-187) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prenatal period -- Birth -- Postnatal interests -- Nursing and weaning -- Atypical conditions -- Naming the child -- Prepuberty fasts -- Puberty customs -- Training children -- Religion and supernatural powers -- Belief in life after death -- Health measures -- Moral training -- Mental training -- Diversions -- Vocational training and domestic economy -- Marriage customs.

Additional Physical Form available Note:

Also available online.

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Subject:

Ojibwa children.
Ojibwa Indians.
Indian children > North America.
Indian children.
Ojibwa children.
Ojibwa Indians.
North America.
Kinderen.
Opvoeding.
Ojibwa (volk)

Genre:

Government publications

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• Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology bulletin ; 146
• Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology) ; 146.
• House document (United States. Congress. House) ; 81st Congress, no. 624.