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

 

  

THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN

i
  

Contents of Volume One

v
  

Alphabet Used In Recording Indian Terms

vi
  

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vii

Foreword

xi

General Introduction

xiii

Introduction to Volume One

xix

The Apache

1
Historical Sketch
3
Homeland and Life
13
Mythology
23
Medicine and Medicine-Men
35

The Jicarillas

51
Home and General Customs
53
Mythology
60

The Navaho

71
Home Life, Arts, and Beliefs
73
History
81
MYTHOLOGY
83
Ceremonies
116

Appendix

129
Tribal Summary
131
Southern Athapascan Comparative Vocabulary
139

Index

145
 
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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.

 
  

Vol. 2 Illustrations

 
 
Facing Page
Yuma girl
Frontispiece
Author's camp, Walapai-land
x
Palo verde
xii
Pima-land
2
Gathering cactus fruit - Pima
4
A Pima home
6
Antonio Azul -Pima
8
Pima burial grounds
10
Pima granaries
12
Ceremonial Ki - Pima
14
Gathering arrow-brush - Pima
16
Joseph Head - Pima
18
Isevik-Pima
20
Casa grande ruin
22
Casa grande ruin
24
Papago kitchen
26
Mission San Xavier del Bac
28
Hokak - Papago
30
Kiho carrier - Qahatka
32
Papago burial
34
Papago matron
36
The Papago potter
38
Papago primitive home
38a
Hasen harvest - Qahtlka
40
Qahatlka village scene
42
Qahatika man
44
Qahatlka home
44a
Mohave child
46
The Mohave
48
Primitive Mohave
50
Sholya - Mohave girl
52
Stone maze
54
Mohave still life
56
Mohave potter
58
Primitive transportation - Mohave
60
Chacha - Mohave
60a
Yuma maiden
62
A Yuma house
64
A Yuma type
66
Hapchach - Yuma
68
A Yuma home
70
A Yuma
72
Mohave home construction
74
An old Mohave
76
Hipah - Mohave
78
Mohave mother
78a
Fruit gatherer - Maricopa
80
Maricopa woman mealing
82
Hipdh - Maricopa
84
Maricopa still life
86
Harvesting cactus fruit - Maricopa
88
Havachach Weaving - Maricopa
88a
Walapai winter camp
90
Ta'thamiche - Walapai
92
Walapai hunter
94
Nerije - Walapai
94a
The canon walls - Havasupai
96
Havasupai basket maker
98
Havasupai matron
100
Havasupai cliff dwelling
102
Walathoma - Havasupai
102a
Apache-Mohave homes
104
An Apache-Mohave woman
106
Gathering Haisn - Qahtka
108
A Papago
110
Mohave man
112
Yaqui girl
114
Gathering arrow-brush - Maricopa
116
Maricopa group
118
Maricopa water girl
120
Qahatika matron
122
Stone maze
124
Stone maze
126
Tokopala - Walapai
128
Maricopa house
130
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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Two

 

Saguaro harvest - Pima

 plate no. 40

Pima baskets

 plate no. 41

Kaviu - Pima

 plate no. 42

Burden-bearer - Pima

 plate no. 43

The Pima woman

 plate no. 44

Pima ki

 plate no. 45

Pima matron

 plate no. 46

Chijako - Pima

 plate no. 47

Papago girl

 plate no. 48

Gathering hanamh - Papago

 plate no. 49

Carlos Rios - Papago chief

 plate no. 50

Facade - San Xavier del Bac Mission

 plate no. 51

Portal - San Xavier del Bac Mission

 plate no. 52

Luzi - Papago

 plate no. 53

Qahatika water girl

 plate no. 54

Resting in the harvest field - Qahatika

 plate no. 55

Qahatika girl

 plate no. 56

Mohave chief

 plate no. 57

Mohave water carrier

 plate no. 58

Judith - Mohave

 plate no. 59

Quniaika - Mohave

 plate no. 60

Mosa - Mohave

 plate no. 61

Yuma

 plate no. 62

Hwalya - Yuma

 plate no. 63

Havachachi - Maricopa

 plate no. 64

Maricopa girl

 plate no. 65

Mat Stams - Maricopa

 plate no. 66

Hipah with arrow-brush - Maricopa

 plate no. 67

By the canal - Maricopa

 plate no. 68

Saguaro fruit-gatherers - Maricopa

 plate no. 69

Pakit - Maricopa

 plate no. 70

Captain Charley - Maricopa

 plate no. 71

Captain Charley - Maricopa

 plate no. 72

Pachilawa - Walapai chief

 plate no. 73

Tonovige - Havasupai

 plate no. 74

Getting water - Havasupai

 plate no. 75
 

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

 

THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN

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Contents of Volume Three

v
  

Alphabet Used in Recording Indian Terms

vi
  

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vii

Introduction

xi

The Teton Sioux

1
General Description
3
Historical Sketch
31
Religion
55
Ceremonies
71
Folk-tale
111

The Yanktonai

119

The Assiniboin

125

Appendix

135
Tribal Summary
137
Note on the Indian Music
142
Hunka-Lowanpi Prayers
151
Dakota Vocabulary
152
High Hawk's Winter-count
159
Biographical Sketches
182

Index

191
 
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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

Vol. 6 Illustrations

 
 
Facing Page
Red Plume - Piegan
Frontispiece
Piegan Camp
Facing page 4
Piegan Lodge
6
Mountain Chief - Piegan
8
Two Medicine River - Piegan
10
A Prairie Camp - Piegan
12
A Buffalo-fall - Piegan
14
Piegan War-bonnet and Coup-stick
16
Lodge Interior - Piegan
18
The Grizzly-bear - Piegan
20
Camp in the Foot-hills - Piegan
22
Piegan Woman
24
Overlooking the Camp - Piegan
26
A Grave-house - Piegan
28
A Piegan Home
30
Navel-amulets - Piegan
36
In the Lodge - Piegan
38
Goldenrod Meadows - Piegan
40
The Crier - Piegan
42
Return to Faster's Lodge - Piegan
44
The Pledger - Piegan
46
Return with Willows - Piegan
48
Substitute Sacred Head-dress - Piegan
50
Piegan Dancers
52
The Whistler - Piegan
54
The Sun-lodge - Piegan
56
Day-dreams - Piegan
58
Camp by a Prairie Lake - Piegan
60
Piegan Girls
62
A Child's Lodge - Piegan
Facing page 64
Buffalo-stones - Piegan
66
Medicine-bags - Piegan
68
Running Owl - Piegan
70
A Favorite Cheyenne Costume
72
Cheyenne Woman
74
Wood Gatherers - Cheyenne
76
Cheyenne Matron
78
Cheyenne Man
80
Cheyenne Female Profile
82
Cheyenne Female Type
86
Sun Dance Pledgers - Cheyenne
88
Return of Scouts - Cheyenne
90
Warrior Society Encircling Camp - Cheyenne
92
Cutting the Centre-pole - Cheyenne
94
Return with Boughs - Cheyenne
96
Boughs for the Altar - Cheyenne
98
Departure from Preparation Lodge - Cheyenne
100
Lame Deer Monuments - Cheyenne
102
Offering Pipe to the Earth - Cheyenne
104
Offering Pipe to the Skull - Cheyenne
106
Priests Passing before Pipe - Cheyenne
108
Painting the Poles - Cheyenne
110
Before the Final Journey - Cheyenne
112
Crazy Dancers - Cheyenne
114
Animal Dance - Cheyenne
116
Sweat-lodge Frame - Cheyenne
118
Devotees en Route - Cheyenne
120
Building the Sun-lodge - Cheyenne
122
Beginning of the Altar - Cheyenne
124
The Altar - Cheyenne
126
Sun Dance in Progress - Cheyenne
128
Gray Dawn - Cheyenne
130
Dancing - Cheyenne
132
Cheyenne Young Woman
134
The Ancient Arapaho
136
A Smoke - Arapaho
Facing page 138
Good Man - Arapaho
140
Arapaho Maiden
142
Arapaho Youth
144
Arapaho Camp
146
Eagle Chief - Arapaho
148
Arapaho Water Girl
150
Stone Grave - Cheyenne
156
Mother and Child - Arapaho
158
On Little Powder River - Arapaho
164
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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Six

 

Piegan

 plate no. 184

Morning Eagle – Piegan

 plate no. 185

Painted lodges – Piegan

 plate no. 186

Tearing Lodge – Piegan

 plate no. 187

In a Piegan lodge

 plate no. 188

White Calf – Piegan

 plate no. 189

Two Bear Woman – Piegan

 plate no.190

Double Runner - Piegan

 plate no.191

Sun dance encampment – Piegan

 plate no.192

Travaux – Piegan

 plate no. 193

Gambler – Piegan

 plate no. 194

At the water's edge – Piegan

 plate no. 195

Yellow Kidney – Piegan

 plate no.196

Idle hour – Piegan

 plate no. 197

Grizzly-bear brave – Piegan

 plate no. 198

Medicine-pipe – Piegan

 plate no. 199

New Chest – Piegan

 plate no. 200

Crow Eagle – Piegan

 plate no. 201

Middle Calf – Piegan

 plate no. 202

Weasel Tail – Piegan

 plate no. 203

Old person – Piegan

 plate no. 204

Bringing the sweat-lodge willows – Piegan

 plate no. 205

Iron Breast – Piegan

 plate no. 206

Piegan encampment

 plate no. 207

Piegan dandy

 plate no. 208

Three chiefs – Piegan

 plate no. 209

Cheyenne type

 plate no. 210

Cheyenne profile

 plate no. 211

Cheyenne girl

 plate no. 212

Two Moons – Cheyenne

 plate no. 213

At the ford – Cheyenne

 plate no. 214

Camp in the cottonwoods – Cheyenne

 plate no. 215

Porcupine – Cheyenne>

 plate no. 216

Camp in the cottonwoods - Cheyenne

 plate no. 217

Waiting in the forest - Cheyenne

 plate no. 218

Little Wolf – Cheyenne

 plate no. 219

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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.

 

THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN

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Contents of Volume Eight

v
  

Alphabet Used in Recording Indian Terms

vi
  

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Introduction

xi

The Nez Perces

1
Historical Sketch
3
General Description
40
Religion and Ceremonies
52

Wallawalla, Umatilla, Cayuse

77

The Chinookan Tribes

83
General Description
86
Mythology
106

Appendix

155
Tribal Summary
157
Additional Nez Perce Songs
183
Additional Wishham Songs
185
Vocabularies
191

Index

207

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.

 
 
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Vol.11. The Nootka. The Haida.

 
 
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Vol.12. The Hopi.

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

 
  

Vol. 13 Illustrations

 
 
Facing Page
Fishing from a Platform
Frontispiece
Hupa Man
4
Hupa Woman
6
Hupa Baskets
8
Hupa Purses and Money
10
Hupa House
12
Hupa Sweat-House
14
Broken Fish-weir
16
Sticks Used in Hupa Guessing Game
18
Hupa Matron
20
Hupa Woman's Dress
22
Hupa Basket and Purses
24
Hupa Fisherman
26
Hupa Female Shaman
28
White Deerskin Dance Costume - Hupa
30
Dancer with Black Deer Effigy - Hupa
32
Obsidian-bearer, White Deerskin Dance - Hupa
34
Modern Hupa House
36
Costume of the Obsidian-bearer - Hupa
38
Dip-netting at the Sugar Bowl - Hupa
40
Watching for Salmon - Hupa
42
Hupa Canoe
44
Hupa Salmon-fishing
48
The Forest Stream
48
Hupa War-chief
50
A House at Wakhtek - Yurok
52
Yurok Houses at Weitspus
54
Entrance to a Yurok Sweat-house
56
Modern Yurok House
60
Yurok House on Klamath River
62
An Ancient Yurok
64
Bob Peters - Trinidad Yurok
68
Weitchpec George - Yurok
70
A Yurok Widow
72
A Yurok Cemetery
74
Yurok Fisherman
76
In the Shadow - Yurok
80
Fishing for Smelt in the Surf - Trinidad Yurok
80
Old Sweat-house Walls at Orleans Bar - Karok
82
Karok House at Soames Bar
84
The Mush-Basket
86
Karok Woman
92
Old Bob - Karok
94
Tolowa Man
96
On the Shores of the Pacific - Tolowa
98
Tolowa Tattooing
100
A Tolowa
102
Elk-horn Spoons - Tolowa
106
Measuring Shell Money - Tolowa
108
Tolowa Basket-maker
110
Tolowa Type
112
Achomawi Man
130
Achomawi Woman
132
Achomawi Summer Hut
136
Achomawi Mother and Child
136
An Achomawi
138
Achomawi Matron
140
Klamath Duck-hunter
142
Klamath Child
144
Thinking of the Old Days - Klamath
146
Gathering Basket Material - Klamath
148
Klamath Woman
150
A Klamath Costume
152
Among the Tules - Klamath
154
A Klamath Profile
156
Praying to the Spirits at Crater Lake - Klamath
158
Day Dreams - Crater Lake
162
A Klamath in Costume
164
Klamath Tule Hut
166
The Wokas Harvest - Klamath
168
Grinding Wokas - Klamath
170
Gathering Wokas
172
A Klamath Head-dress
174
Klamath Matron
176
Klamath Canoe
178
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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Thirteen

 

Klamath woman

 plate no. 436

Sam Ewing – Yurok

 plate no. 437

Karok baskets

 plate no. 438

Hupa trout-trap

 plate no. 439

Old Klamath woman

 plate no. 440

A Klamath

 plate no. 441

Hupa jumping dance costume

 plate no. 442

Yurok canoe on Trinity River

 plate no. 443

Yurok canoe on Trinity River

 plate no. 444

Wife of Modoc Henry – Klamath

 plate no. 445

A Klamath type

 plate no. 446

Fishing from canoe – Hupa

 plate no. 447

In the forest – Klamath

 plate no. 448

Klamath warrior's headdress

 plate no. 449

Hupa mother and child

 plate no. 450

Hupa woman

 plate no. 451

Salmon stream

 plate no. 452

Hupa fisherman

 plate no. 453

Spearing salmon

 plate no. 454

Tolowa dancing headdress

 plate no. 455

Klamath lake marshes

 plate no. 456

Yurok drummer

 plate no. 457

Klamath hunter

 plate no. 458

Fish-weir across Trinity River – Hupa

 plate no. 459

Gathering wokas – Klamath

 plate no. 460

Woman's primitive dress – Tolowa

 plate no. 461

Wokas season – Klamath

 plate no. 462

Crater Lake

 plate no. 463

Achomawi basket-maker

 plate no. 464

Fishing platform on Trinity River – Hupa

 plate no. 465

Achomawi man

 plate no.466

Principal female shaman of the Hupa

 plate no. 467

Hupa woman in primitive costume

 plate no. 468

Smelt fisher - Trinidad Yurok

 plate no. 469

Chief – Klamath

 plate no. 470

Smoky day at the Sugar Bowl – Hupa

 plate no. 471
 

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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

ii
  

Contents of Volume Fourteen

v
  

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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.

 
 
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Vol.16. The Tiwa. The Keres.

 
 
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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.

 
 
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Vol.20. The Alaskan Eskimo. The Nunivak. The Eskimo of Hooper Bay. The Eskimo of King Island. The Eskimo of Little Diomede Island. The Eskimo of Cape Prince of Wales. The Kotzebue Eskimo. The Noatak. The Kobuk. The Selawik.

 

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Contents of Volume Twenty

v
  

Alphabet Used in Recording Eskimo Terms

x
  

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Introduction

xv

The Alaskan Eskimo

1
Introduction
3

The Nunivak

5
General Description
5
Social Customs
48
Warfare
54
Ceremonies
55
Mythology
74

Eskimo of Hooper Bay

97

Eskimo of King Island

99
General Description
99
Mythology
105

Eskimo of Little Diomede Island

111
General Description
111
Social Customs
119
Mythology
124

Eskimo of Cape Prince of Wales

135
General Description
135
Mythology
150

The Kotzebue Eskimo

161
General Description
161
Mythology
177

The Noatak

193
General Description
193
Mythology
197

The Kobuk

207
General Description
207
Mythology
214

The Selawik

225
General Description
225
Mythology
228

Appendix

241
General Summary
243
Appended Legends
245
Vocabularies
264

Index

279

Vol. 20 Illustrations

 
 
Facing Page
On Kotzebue Sound
Frontispiece
Map Showing the Dialects and Hunting Territories of the Coast Eskimo of Alaska
3
Mihkoyak, a Nunivak Village
6
Ground-plan, Roof-plan, and Section of Eskimo Men's House
8
Mihkoyak, Men's House at Winter Camp - Nunivak
12
At Nash Harbor, Nunivak
16
Baninaguh - Nunivak
20
Waterproof Parkas - Nunivak
24
Girl's Costume - Nunivak
28
Holiday Costume - Nunivak
30
Duck-skin Parkas - Nunivak
32
Fish-drying Racks - Nunivak
34
Nunivak Youth
38
Jukuk - Nunivak
42
Kaiak Frame - Nunivak
44
Kaiak on Rack - Nunivak
48
Kaiak with Seal Hunting Equipment - Nunivak
52
Ready for the Throw - Nunivak
54
A Nunivak Hunter
56
Sled - Nunivak
58
Chahali - Nunivak
60
Line Stretching Posts - Nunivak
62
Herring Racks - Nunivak
64
Kenowun - Nunivak
66
Dahchihtok - Nunivak
68
Jukuk - Nunivak
72
Dishes - Nunivak
74
Baskets - Nunivak
78
Ceremonial Mask - Nunivak
80
Maskette - Nunivak
82
The Ivory Carver - Nunivak
86
Hooper Bay Homes
88
Hooper Bay Man
90
Ukowuhhuh - Hooper Bay
92
Drying Whale Meat - Hooper Bay
94
Food Caches - Hooper Bay
96
A Grave-post - Hooper Bay
98
King Island
100
Looking to Sea - King Island
102
On the Cliff Edge - King Island
104
Housetops, King Island
106
Nuktaya, King Island
108
Drilling ivory, King Island
110
The bow-drill, King Island
112
Village at Little Diomede
114
Home structure, Diomede
116
Underground house tops with whale-rib drying rack, Diomede
118
Walrus boats, Big Diomede in distance
122
Drying walrus hide, Diomede
124
Siluk, Diomede
128
Diomede girl
132
Tahopik, Diomede
134
Home structure, Cape Prince of Wales
136
Start of whale hunt, Cape Prince of Wales
140
Umiak and crew, Cape Prince of Wales
144
Aiyak, Cape Prince of Wales
148
Koaninok, Cape Prince of Wales
152
Oksiwik, Cape Prince of Wales
158
Berry-pickers, Kotzebue
162
The beluga, Kotzebue
168
Cutting up a beluga, Kotzebue
172
Food containers, pokes, Kotzebue
178
Umiak frame, Kotzebue
182
Umiak, Kotzebue
186
The umiak, Kotzebue
190
Noatak village
194
Noatak home
196
At Noatak village
198
The seal-hunter - Noatak
200
Noatak man
202
Noatak child
204
Bark dishes, Kobuk
208
On the Selawik River
226
At Selawik
228
Kihsuk, Selawik
230
Selawik women
234
Selawik woman
236
Selawik girl
238
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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Twenty

 

Nunivak children

 plate no. 688

Reindeer – Nunivak

 plate no. 689

Boys in kaiak – Nuniva

 plate no. 690

Kenowun – Nunivak

 plate no. 691

Drummer – Nunivak

 plate no. 692

Ugiyaku – Nunivak

 plate no. 693

Woman and child – Nunivak

 plate no. 694

Ready for sealing – Nunivak

 plate no. 695

Uyowutcha – Nunivak

 plate no. 696

Ugiyaku - Nunivak

 plate no. 697

Hooper Bay Youth

 plate no. 698

Village - Hooper Bay

 plate no. 699

King Island village from the sea

 plate no. 700

King Island village

 plate no. 701

King Island homes

 plate no. 702

Qunaninru - King Island

 plate no. 703

Launching the boat - Little Diomede Island

 plate no. 704

Diomede boat crew, Asiatic shore in distance

 plate no. 705

Old stone house - Diomede Island

 plate no. 706

Launching the whale boat - Cape Prince of Wales

 plate no. 707

Cape Prince of Wales man

 plate no. 708

Whaling crew - Cape Prince of Wales

 plate no. 709

A Kotzebue man

 plate no. 710

Foggy day – Kotzebue

 plate no. 711

Starting up the Noatak River – Kotzebue

 plate no. 712

Jackson, interpreter at Kotzebue

 plate no. 713

Muskrat-hunter – Kotzebue

 plate no. 714

Arriving home – Noatak

 plate no. 715

Ola - Noatak

 plate no. 716

Family group – Noatak

 plate no. 717

Noatak kayaks

 plate no. 718

Nungoktok – Noatak

 plate no. 719

Jajuk – Selawik

 plate no. 720

Charlie Wood – Kobuk

 plate no. 721

Kobuk costume

 plate no. 722

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