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Vol.1. The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navaho.

 
 
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Vol.2. The Pima. The Papago. The Qahatika. The Mohave. The Yuma. The Maricopa. The Walapai. The Havasupai. The Apache-Mohave, or Yavapai.

 
 
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Vol.3. The Teton Sioux. The Yanktonai. The Assiniboin.

 
  

Vol. 3 Illustrations

 
 
Facing Page
The Sioux
Frontispiece
Calico - Ogalala
2
In the Shadow of the Cliff
4
In Camp
6
When Winter Comes
8
Shield - Ogalala
10
Start of a War-party
12
Stands First - Ogalala
14
Good Lance - Ogalala
16
Mother and Child
18
Daughters of a Chief
20
Tipi Construction (A)
22
Tipi Construction (B)
24
Pipe-bags
26
Sioux Maiden
28
Scalp-shirts
30
Iron Plume - Ogalala
32
Short Log - Two Kettle
34
Brule Warriors
36
Struck By Crow - Ogalala
38
Sioux Hunters
40
Scouts
42
Custer Battle-field - Map
44
Custer's Crow Scouts
46
White Man Runs Him
48
Custer Monument
50
White Man Runs Him
52
Red Cloud's Granddaughter
54
Elk Head, and the Sacred Pipe Bundle
56
The Camp
58
Daughter of American Horse
60
Ogalala Child
62
Big Road's Twin Daughters
64
In the Mountains
66
Fasting
68
Slow Bull's Tipi
70
A Prairie Camp
72
Huka-lowapi - Fire-carrier Bringing the Skull
74
Huka-lowapi - " Work-do removes the covering"
76
Huka-lowapi- Painting the Skull
78
Huka-lowapi - The Altar Complete
80
Singing Deeds of Valor
82
Crow Dog - Brule
84
Slow Bull's Wife
86
After the Snow
88
No Flesh - Ogalala
90
The Parley
92
Blue Horse - Ogalala
94
Drying Meat
96
Returned Scout - Ogalala
98
Good Day Woman - Ogalala
100
He Crow - Ogalala
102
Making Camp
104
Kills In Timber - Ogalala
106
Standing Bear - Ogalala
108
Little Hawk - Brule
110
Ring Thunder - Brule
112
Elk Boy - Ogalala
114
Spotted Elk - Brule
116
His Fights - Ogalala
118
A River Camp - Yanktonai
120
Gray Bear - Yanktonai
122
Yellow Horse - Yanktonai
124
Camp Life - Assiniboin
126
An Assiniboin Lodge
128
Long Fox - Assiniboin
130
Good Voice Hawk - Yanktonai
132
Flying Shield - Yanktonai
134
Winter-count - First Period
158
Winter-count- 1540
160
Winter-count - 1680
162
Winter-count - 1701-1727
164
Charge Crow - Yanktonai
180
Eagle Elk - Ogalala
182
Fast Thunder - Ogalala
184
Little Dog - Brule
186
Red Hawk - Ogalala
188
Yellow Hawk - Yanktonai
188
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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Three

 

Medicine-man

 plate no. 76

Ogalala war-party

 plate no. 77

Two Strike

 plate no. 78

Sioux chiefs

 plate no. 79

Oasis in the Bad Lands

 plate no. 80

Jack Red Cloud

 plate no. 81

Hollow Horn Bear

 plate no. 82

Sun dancer

 plate no. 83

Slow Bull - Ogalala

 plate no. 84

Brule war-party

 plate no. 85

Gray day in the Bad Lands

 plate no. 86

High Hawk

 plate no. 87

Prairie chief

 plate no. 88

Little Hawk

 plate no. 89

Hukalowapi ceremony

 plate no. 90

Prayer to the Mystery

 plate no. 91

Fast Elk

 plate no. 92

Sioux camp

 plate no. 93

Ogalala woman

 plate no. 94

In the land of the Sioux

 plate no. 95

Ogalala girls

 plate no. 96

Sioux girl

 plate no. 97

Planning a raid

 plate no. 98

Morning attack

 plate no. 99

Heavy load - Sioux

 plate no. 100

Black Eagle - Assiniboin

 plate no. 101

Mosquito Hawk - Assiniboin

 plate no. 102

Red Cloud - Ogalala

 plate no. 103

Crazy Thunder - Ogalala

 plate no. 104

Wood gatherer - Sioux

 plate no. 105

Winter camp - Sioux

 plate no. 106

Assiniboin camp

 plate no. 107

American Horse - Ogalala

 plate no. 108

Invocation - Sioux

 plate no. 109

Mountain-sheep hunter - Sioux

 plate no. 110

In the Bad Lands

 plate no. 119
 

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Vol.4. The Apsaroke, or Crows. The Hidatsa.

 
 
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Vol.5. The Mandan. The Arikara. The Atsina.

 
 
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Vol.6. The Piegan. The Cheyenne. The Arapaho.

 

THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN

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Contents of Volume Six

v
  

Alphabet Used In Recording Indian Terms

vi
  

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Introduction

xi

The Piegan

1
General Description
3
Religion and Ceremonies
31

The Cheyenne

85
Historical Sketch
87
Tribal Organization
103

The Arapaho

135

Appendix

151
Tribal Summary
153
Arapaho Songs
160
Note on the Indian Music
165
Western Algonquian Comparative Vocabulary
167

Index

175
 
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Vol.7. The Yakima. The Klickitat. Salishan tribes of the interior. The Kutenai.

 
 
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Vol.8. The Nez Perces. Wallawalla. Umatilla. Cayuse. The Chinookan tribes.

 
  

Vol. 8 Illustrations

 
 
Facing Page
Tsagiglalal, the Guardian of Nihhluidih
Frontispiece
A Typical Nez Perce
Facing page 4
Nez Perce Warrior
6
A Nez Perce
8
Nez Perce Matron
10
Kulkultsalum - Nez Perce
12
Grizzly-bear Ferocious - Nez Perce
14
Half-shorn - Nez Perce
16
No Wings - Nez Perce
18
Nez Perce Profile
20
Fort Lapwai
22
Joseph - Nez Perce
24
Three Eagles - Nez Perce
26
Half Moon - Nez Perce
28
A Young Warrior - Nez Perce
30
Two Moons - Nez Perce
32
Nez Perce Girl
34
A Young Nez Perce
36
Last Home of Joseph - Nez Perce
38
Lodge of the Joseph "Dead Feast " - Nez Perce
40
Nez Perce Sweat-lodge
42
The Scout - Nez Perce
44
Nez Perce Canoe
46
The Old-time Warrior - Nez Perce
48
A Mat Lodge - Umatilla
50
White Bull - Umatilla
52
A Young Umatilla
54
Umatilla Child
56
In the Forest - Cayuse
58
With Her Proudly Decked Horse - Cayuse
Facing page 60
Umatilla Girl
62
Cayuse Type
64
Cayuse Profile
66
Falling On The Land - Cayuse
68
Cayuse Matron
70
Cayuse Youth
72
Cayuse Mother and Child
74
Cayuse Woman
76
A Mountain Home - Umatilla
78
Youth in Holiday Costume - Umatilla
80
Learning to Ride - Cayuse
82
Chinook Female Type
84
Chinook Female Profile
86
Tamlaitk - Namnit
88
Spidis - Wishham
90
Wishham Beadwork
92
Pounding Fish - Wishham
94
Island of the- Dead - Wishham
98
Salmon Fishing - Wishham
100
Wishham Fishing Platform
102
Bone Carving - Cascade
104
Wishham - Female Type
106
Wishham - Female Profile
108
Petroglyphs - Wishham
110
Wishham Basket Worker
112
On the Columbia - Wishham
114
Wishham Man
116
At the Spring - Wishham
118
Mnashwai - Wishham
120
Wishham Young Woman
122
Wishham Girls
126
Water Baskets - Wishham
128
Kyetani - Wishham
130
Wishham Child
132
Below the Cascades
134
Wind Mountain
Facing page 136
Kamagwaith - Cascade
138
Wishham Bowl
140
At the Site of Wahala - Cascade
142
Preparing Salmon - Wishham
146
Map of Nez Perce Territory
160
Daughter of Tamahus - Cayuse
164
Wishham Handicraft
172
Caches at Celilo
174
The Rock Slide - Wishham
176
Lewis and Clark's Landing-place at Nihhluidih
180
Map of Chinook Territory
182
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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Eight

 

Chief Joseph - Nez Perce

 plate no. 256

Yellow Bull - Nez Perce

 plate no.257

Typical Nez Perce

 plate no. 258

Raven Blanket - Nez Perce

 plate no. 259

Night scout - Nez Perce

 plate no. 260

Watching for the signal - Nez Perce

 plate no. 261

Nez Perce warrior

 plate no. 262

Nez Perce brave

 plate no. 263

Lawyer - Nez Perce

 plate no. 264

Black Eagle - Nez Perce

 plate no. 265

Nez Perce babe

 plate no. 266

Piopio-maksmaks – Wallawalla

 plate no. 267

Piopio-maksmaks, profile – Wallawalla

 plate no. 268

Umatilla maid

 plate no. 269

Innocence – Umatilla

 plate no. 270

War chief - Nez Perce

 plate no. 271

Cayuse warrior

 plate no. 272

Holiday trappings – Cayuse

 plate no. 273

Fisherman – Wishham

 plate no. 274

Dip-netting in pools – Wishham

 plate no. 275

Spearing salmon – Wishham

 plate no. 276

Fish carrier – Wishham

 plate no. 277

Wishham girl

 plate no. 278

Wishham girl, profile

 plate no. 279

Wishham woman

 plate no. 280

Wishham bride

 plate no. 281

Hlalakum – Wishham

 plate no. 282

Kashhila – Wishham

 plate no. 283

Wishham maid

 plate no. 284

Columbia near Wind River

 plate no. 285

Lower Columbia

 plate no. 286

Evening on the Columbia

 plate no. 287

Middle Columbia

 plate no. 288

On Klickitat River – A

 plate no. 289

On Klickitat River – B

 plate no. 290

On Klickitat River – C

 plate no. 291

On the beach – Chinook

 plate no. 292
 

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Vol.9. The Salishan tribes of the coast. The Chimakum and the Quilliute. The Willapa.

 
 
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Vol.10. The Kwakiutl.

 

The North American Indian

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Contents of Volume Ten

v
  

Alphabet Used in Recording Indian Terms

vi
  

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Introduction

xi

The Kwakiutl

1
General Description
3
Sorcerers, Medicine-men, and Herb-doctors
63
Warriors and Warfare
98
Social Organization
124
Ceremonial Organization and Rites
155
Mythology
245

Appendix

301
Tribal Summary
303
Kwakiutl Songs
311

Vocabularies

327

Index

339
 
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Vol.11. The Nootka. The Haida.

 
 
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Vol.12. The Hopi.

 
  

Vol. 12 Illustrations

 
 
Facing Page
Nova - Walpi
Frontispiece
The Trail to Shipaulovi
Facing page 4
Approaching the Gap at Walpi
6
Return of a Trading Party
8
On a Walpi Housetop
10
A Visitor
12
Hotavila
14
Pakavi
16
Gossip at the Waterhole
18
Hopi Architecture
20
Household Utensils
22
On a Housetop - Walpi
24
East Mesa Pottery
26
Oraibi Plaques
28
Hano and Walpi Girls Wearing Atoo
30
A Hopi Flock
34
The Delights of Childhood
36
A Cave at Middle Mesa
38
Hopi Bridal Costume
40
A Cornfield
42
Grinding Meal
44
A Melon Field
Walled Gardens at Middle Mensa
46
The Stairway Trail at Walpi
48
Hopi Farmers, Yesterday and Today
50
A Hopi Woman
52
In the Cradle-basket
54
A Hopi Mother
56
A Middle Mesa Albino
60
Drying Pottery
62
Potter Building Her Kiln
64
Firing Pottery
66
An Ancient Pottery Kiln
68
Pele - Tewa
70
Tsetsanu - Tewa
72
Puliini and Koyame - Walpi
74
A Load of Wood
76
Shongopavi
78
The Plaza at Walpi
80
An Afternoon Chat
82
The Weaver
84
Good Morning
86
A Peach Orchard
88
Kachina Dolls
100
Shipaulovi Snake Kiva
106
Spectators at the Snake Dance
122
A Snake Priest
124
Walpi Snake Chief
126
Sikyaletstiwa - Shipaulovi Snake Chief
128
The Prayer
130
Snake Priest Entering the Kiva
132
Guarding the Snake Kiva
134
Singing to the Snakes - Shipaulovi
136
Antelopes Starting for the Plaza - Shipaulovi
138
Snakes and Antelopes at Oraibi
140
Snake Dancer and "Hugger"
142
The "Catcher"
144
A "Catcher" Picking up a Snake
146
Picking up the Snakes
148
Depositing Snakes in the Circle of Meal
150
Oraibi Snake Dance
152
Oraibi Snake Dance
154
Awaiting the Return of the Snake Racers
156
Snake Jars in the Kiva
158
Flute Dancers Dressing at Kachina House
160
Dressing the Flute Maiden
162
Flute Boys, Priest, and Maidens
164
Flute Dancers Approaching the Spring
166
Dressing at Tawapa Spring, Walpi Flute Ceremony
168
Entering the Spring, Walpi Flute Dance
170
Flute Dancers Returning to Walpi
172
Offering Sacred Meal, Mishongnovi Flute Dance
174
Sumaikuli Katsina at Hano
176
Buffalo Dance at hano
178
An East Mesa Girl
180
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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Twelve

 

Loitering at the spring

 plate no. 400

Buffalo dance at Hano

 plate no. 401

Tewa girl

 plate no. 402

Hopi mother

 plate no. 403

Antelopes and snakes at Oraibi

 plate no. 404

Watching the dancers

 plate no. 405

Hopi girl

 plate no. 406

Evening in Hopi land

 plate no. 407

Honovi - Walpi snake priest, with Totokya Day painting

 plate no. 408

On the housetop

 plate no. 409

Walpi

 plate no. 410

Hopi woman

 plate no. 411

Hopi maiden

 plate no. 412

Counting the record

 plate no. 413

Chaiwa – Tewa

 plate no. 414

Chaiwa - Tewa, profile

 plate no. 415

At the trysting place

 plate no. 416

East side of Walpi

 plate no. 417

Snake priest

 plate no. 418

Potter mixing clay

 plate no. 419

Hopi man

 plate no. 420

Hopi architecture

 plate no. 421

Snake dancers entering the plaza

 plate no. 422

Primitive style of hairdressing

 plate no. 423

Walpi man

 plate no. 424

Mishongnovi

 plate no. 425

Potter

 plate no. 426

East mesa girls

 plate no. 427

Modified style of hairdressing

 plate no. 428

Walpi snake priest

 plate no. 429

Snake dancer in costume

 plate no. 430

Flute dancers at Tureva Spring

 plate no. 431

Piki maker

 plate no. 432

Depositing a prayer-stick

 plate no. 433

Tewa girl

 plate no. 434

Water carriers

 plate no. 435
 

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Vol.13. The Hupa. The Yurok. The Karok. The Wiyot. Tolowa and Tututni. The Shasta. The Achomawi. The Klamath.

 
 
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Vol.14. The Kato. The Wailaki. The Yuki. The Pomo. The Wintun. The Maidu. The Miwok. The Yokuts.

 

The North American Indian

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Contents of Volume Fourteen

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Alphabet Used in Recording Indian Terms

ix

Introduction

xi

The Kato

1

The Wailaki

19

The Yuki

37

The Pomo

53

The Wintun

71

The Maidu

97

The Miwok

127

The Yokuts

149

Mythology

163
The Deluge
165
The Creation
165
Coyote Provides Daylight
167
Coyote and Yitestai Provide Salmon
167
Coyote Temporarily Slain for Misdeeds
167
Coyote and Bat War with the Birds
168
A Girl Taken by Water-Cougar
168
Good Luck Acquired from Cougar
168
Adventure with the White Wolf
169
The Creation
169
Fire is Stolen from Spider
170
The Creation
170
Coyote Creates Sun and Moon
171
Wren Kills the Bears
171
Hawk and the Monster Birds
172
The Creation
173
The Creation
173
The Girl Who Would Not Use the Menstrual Hut
176
Sachacha, the Ogre
176
Yalali, the Giant
177
The Creation
177
Prairie-falcon, Chicken-hawk, and the Monster
177
Coyote and Talkakuna
178
Coyote Steals the Morning-star
179

Appendix

181
Tribal Summary
183

Vocabularies

199
Athapascan
201
Yukian
207
Pomo
214
Wintun
220
Northwestern Maidu
229
Miwok
237
Yokuts
244

Index

249
 
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Vol.15. Southern California Shoshoneans. The Diegueños. Plateau Shoshoneans. The Washo.

 

The North American Indian

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Contents of Volume Fifteen

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Alphabet Used in Recording Indians Terms

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Introduction

xi

Southern California Shoshoneans

1
The Luisenos
5
The Cahuilla
21

The Dieguenos

37

Plateau Shoshoneans

53
The Mono
55
The Paviotso
66

The Washo

87

Mythology

99
Taqish
101
Suskia, the Giantess
103
Temet'awi', the Magic Hunter
105
The Creation
106
The Creation
110
The Creation
121
The Origin of People
128
Origin Myth
129
Origin Myth
134
Hainanu, the Transformer
135
Tavuu, the Transformer
143
Origin of the Belt of Orion
147
Origin of Pine-nuts and Death
148
Origin Myth
149
The Monster Bird
150
How the Animals Were Named
151
Tamalili and Goji
151
The Women Who Married Stars
154

Appendix

157
Tribal Summary
159
Vocabularies
173

Index

193
 
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Vol.16. The Tiwa. The Keres.

 
  

Vol. 16 Illustrations

 
 
Facing Page
A narrow street - Laguna
Frontispiece
Francisca Chiwiwi - Isleta
4
Cave dwelling near Jemez
6
A street in Jemez
8
An Isleta boy
10
An Isleta woman
14
An Isleta girl
16
An Isleta potter
18
Felicia - Isleta
20
Isleta kiva
22
Tsola - "Chipmunk", Jemez governor
24
A Jemez fiscal
26
A corner of Taos and a kiva entrance
28
Pecos in ruins
30
Old house and kiva at Picuris
32
Jemez houses
34
In the forest - Taos
40
Threshing wheat - Taos
42
Tapa - "Antelope Water" - Taos
44
Walvia - "Medicine Root" - Taos
46
Picuris harvest dance
50
Iahla - "Willow" - Taos
52
A Taos girl
54
Pavia - Taos
56
A Taos maid
58
Santa Ana and Jemez River
66
Old Cochiti
68
Partially excavated kivi, old Cochiti
70
Ruins of the church at Gyusiwa
72
Hope - Jemez
74
Santana Quintana - Cochiti
76
Ti'mu - Cochiti
78
Tsi'yone - "Flying" - Sia
80
Tsaiyatsa - Cochiti
82
A Santa Ana man
88
Sia footgear
90
Ka'yati - Sia
94
A Sia man
96
Tsipiai - Sia
98
A Cochiti woman
100
Tyo'oni Shiwanna mask - Cochita
108
Sia war-dancer
114
A Santo Domingo man
126
Sotsona - "Fox" - Santo Domingo
128
Pishkuty - "Cornstalk" - Santo Domingo
132
Native drawings of Santo Domingo masks
152
Wall-painting for the summer Shiwanna ceremony - Santo Domingo
154
Cliff-perched Acoma
168
Crumbling walls of the old church - Acoma
170
The enchanted mesa
176
The Acoma and the enchanted mesa
178
Acoma from the churchtop
198
A morning chat - Acoma
202
Native conception of a kopishtaia with mask and tablita - Acoma
204
An Acoma man
206
Church and cemetery - Acoma
208
Among the rocks - Acoma
212
Native conception of Histiani-Kowasutyi - "Flint-wing", the Thunderbird - Acoma
214
Mission and church at Acoma
216
Fiesta of San Estevan, A - Acoma
218
Fiesta of San Estevan, B - Acoma
220
Procession of San Estevan, A - Acoma
222
Procession of San Estevan, B - Acoma
224
Depositing San Estevan in the booth - Acoma
226
Laguna cooking-pot and Acoma water-jars
228
Turivio Waconda - Paguate
230
Hiyortsa - Paguate
232
Laguna house
234
A corner of Laguna
236
Laguna architecture
238
Laguna
240
Laguna water-jar
242
Paguate watchtower
244
A second-story apartment at Paguate
248
Excavated ruins at Gyusiwa - Jemez Springs
250
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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Sixteen

 

Taos water girls

 plate no. 544

Iahla ("Willow") – Taos

 plate no. 545

North pueblo at Taos

 plate no. 546

Walvia ("Medicine Root") – Taos

 plate no. 547

Taos woman

 plate no. 548

Isleta man

 plate no. 549

Francisca Chiwiwi – Isleta

 plate no. 550

Jemez architecture

 plate no. 551

Jemez fiscal

 plate no. 552

Tuvahe – Jemez

 plate no. 553

Cochiti and Sia pottery

 plate no. 554

Ti'mu – Cochiti

 plate no. 555

Aiyowitsa – Cochiti

 plate no. 556

Lucero - Santo Domingo

 plate no. 557

Kyello - Santo Domingo

 plate no. 558

On a Sia housetop

 plate no. 559

Sia buffalo mask

 plate no. 560

Shuati – Sia

 plate no. 561

Sia street scene

 plate no. 562

Sia buffalo mask

 plate no. 563

Acoma belfry

 plate no. 564

Feast day at Acoma

 plate no. 565

Acoma from the south

 plate no. 566

Old trail at Acoma

 plate no. 567

Acoma water carriers

 plate no. 568

At the gateway – Acoma

 plate no. 569

Acoma Roadway

 plate no. 570

At the old well of Acoma

 plate no. 571

An Acoma Woman

 plate no. 572

Acoma Water Girls

 plate no. 573

Paguate

 plate no. 574

Laguna architecture

 plate no. 575

Replastering a Paguate house

 plate no. 576

Laguna watchtower

 plate no. 577

Paguate entrance

 plate no. 578

Paguate watchtower

 plate no. 579
 

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Vol.17. The Tewa. The Zuñi.

 
 
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Vol.18. The Chipewyan. The Western Woods Cree. The Sarsi.

 
 
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Vol.19. The Indians of Oklahoma. The Wichita. The Southern Cheyenne. The Oto. The Comanche. The Peyote Cult.

 

THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN

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Contents of Volume Nineteen

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Alphabet Used in Recording Indian Terms

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The Indians of Oklahoma

1
Historical Introduction
3
Population of the Indians of Oklahoma in 1926
32

The Wichita

33
General Description
35
Religious Beliefs
44
Witchcraft
56
Ceremonies
64
Mythology
85

The Southern Cheyenne

105
Introduction
107
Origin of the Forty-four Chief-sticks and the Election of Chiefs
110
Ceremonies
112
Band and Society Legends
Witchcraft
138
The Sweat-lodge
140
Mythology
143

The Oto

149
General Description
151
Genesis of the Clans
158
Mythology
164

The Commanche

179
General Description
181
Mythology
189

The Peyote Cult, the "Stomp" Dance, and the Forty-nine Dance

Peyote Ritual
203
Peyote Experiences
213
The "Stomp Dance and the Forty-nine Dance
214

Appendix

221
Tribal Summary
223
Vocabularies
230

Index

239
 
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