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• Physical Description: ix, 108 pages : illustrations ; 33 cm
• Publisher: Washington City : Smithsonian Institution, 1870]

Content descriptions

General Note:

Imprint from p. 108.

"Accepted for publication, June 1868."

Originally issued in 1870 as Smithsonian Institution publication 220; later reprinted in 1870 as article 8 of volume 16 of the Smithsonian contributions to knowledge (simultaneously Smithsonian Institution publication 211).

"Makah vocabulary" pp. 93-106

Includes index.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Name of the tribe -- Geographical position -- Character of the reservation -- Census of the tribe -- Physical characteristics -- Dwellings -- Picture writing -- Social life -- Festivals -- Sports of children -- Dress -- Personal ornaments -- Care of children -- Food, and method of obtaining it -- Fishing and sealing -- Trade -- Tools -- Canoes -- Whaling and fishing gear -- Boxes, baskets, mats, &c. -- Feather and dog's hair blankets -- Gambling implements -- Mats, baskets, ornaments, &c. -- Weapons, bows, arrows, fish and bird spears -- Songs -- Method of warfare -- Government -- History, traditions, &c. -- Mythology -- Winter ceremonies -- Legends -- Masks and masquerading -- Shamanistic ceremonies -- Shamanism, or magic and medicine -- Diseases -- Remedies -- Funeral ceremonies -- Superstitions -- Computation of time -- Legend of the South Wind -- Vocabulary of the Makah dialect -- Local nomenclature of the Makah.

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Makah Indians.
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