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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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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.

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

 
 
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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.

 
  

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.

 
 
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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.

 

The North American Indian

ii
  

Contents of Volume Eleven

v
  

Alphabet Used in Recording Indian Terms

vi
  

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Introduction

xi

The Nootka

1
General Description
3
Warfare
53
Sociology
62
The Winter Ceremony
68
Mythology
94

The Haida

113
Mythology
148

Appendix

175
Tribal Summary
177

Vocabularies

195
Nootka
197
Haida
204

Index

211

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Facing Page
A Nootka Belle
frontispiece
Village of Nootka
facing page 4
Tsahwismia - Nootka
6
Boston Cove
8
The Lake at Nootka>
10
A Nootka
12
Village Scene - Neah Bay
14
Makah Basketry
16
On Clayoquot Sound
18
Ceremonial Preparation for Whaling
20
Whale Ceremonial
22
Whaling Floats
26
The Whaler's Wife
28
Fastening the Harpoon Point
30
A Woman of Hesquiat
34
A Partially Cut up Whale
36
A Clayoquot Maiden
38
Cooking Whale Blubber
40
Hesquiat Girl in Cedar-bark Costume
42
Hesquiat Profile
44
Suqitlaa
46
Suqitlaa - Profile
48
A Shaman or Medicine Woman
50
Costume of a Woman Shaman - Clayoquot
54
Shaman and Patient
56
Woman Shaman Looking for Clairvoyant Visions - Clayoquot
58
Old Houses - Neah Bay
60
Clayoquot Woman in Cedar-bark Hat
62
A Hesquiat Belle
64
A Sea-otter Hunter
68
Waiting for the Seal
70
Harpooning
72
Ready to Throw the Harpoon
74
Halibut Fishers - Neah Bay
76
Gathering Seaweed
78
Before the Storm - Makah
80
The Shores of Nootka
82
Quiet Waters
84
By the Sea - Nootka
86
Dancing Mask - Nootka
88
Ceremonial Costume of Hemlock Boughs
90
The Bear Costume - Nootka
94
A Clayoquot Woman
96
Gathering Seaweed
98
Sketch of an Indian Fish-trap
100
The Old Makah
102
A Makah Profile
104
A Makah Woman
106
The Makah
108
Nootka Man
110
A Woman of Nootka
112
A Haida of Kung
116
A Raven Totem at Yan
118
Totems at Yan
120
Totems at Kung
122
A Bear Totem at Bassett
124
Totem at Yan, Representing a Caucasian
126
Sepulture in a Post at Yan
128
A Decaying Houseframe - Haida
130
A Haida of Massett
132
Haida Canoes
134
Slate Carvings Representing a Haida Shaman
136
A Haida Shaman's Rattle
138
Shaman's Rattle - Haida
142
Chilkat Blanket, the Haida Ceremonial Robe
144
Ravan Chief of Skidgate - Haida
146
Stlina, of Massett - Haida
148
Hahlkaiyans, of Massett - Haida
150
Kitkun, of Massett - Haida
152
A Haida Girl
154
Koyans - Haida
156
Ihltawat, of Massett - Haida
158
Hayas, of Kayung - Haida
160
A Woman of Massett - Haida
162
A Woman of Kiusta - Haida
164
Haida Slate Pipe
166
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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Eleven

 

Bowman

 plate no. 365

Shores of Nootka Sound

 plate no. 366

Hesquiat root digger

 plate no. 367

Berry-picker – Clayoquot

 plate no.368

Berry-picker – Clayoquot

 plate no. 369

Whale ceremonial – Clayoquot

 plate no. 370

Whale ceremonial – Clayoquot

 plate no. 371

Clayoquot girl

 plate no. 372

Canoeing on Clayoquot Sound

 plate no. 373

Nootka method of spearing

 plate no. 374

Oldest man of Nootka

 plate no.375

Oldest man of Nootka

 plate no. 376

Oldest man of Nootka

 plate no. 377

Clayoquot type

 plate no. 378

Hesquiat maiden

 plate no. 379

Into the shadow – Clayoquot

 plate no. 380

Nootka woman wearing cedar-bark blanket

 plate no. 381

Whaler – Clayoquot

 plate no. 382

Bark gatherer

 plate no.383

Nootka woman

 plate no. 384

Makah maiden

 plate no. 385

At Nootka

 plate no. 386

Waiting for the canoe

 plate no. 387

Haiyahl – Nootka

 plate no. 388

Shores of Nootka Sound

 plate no.389

Nootka man

 plate no. 390

On the west coast of Vancouver Island

 plate no. 391

On the west coast of Vancouver Island

 plate no. 392

Return of halibut fishers

 plate no. 393

Whaler

 plate no. 394

Whaler – Makah

 plate no.395

Captured whale

 plate no. 396

Haida chief's tomb at Yan

 plate no. 397

Haida of Massett

 plate no. 398

Haida of Kung

 plate no. 399

Haida slate carvings

 plate no. 400

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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.

 

The North American Indian

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Contents of Volume Thirteen

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Alphabet Used in Recording Indian Terms

x

Introduction

xi

The Hupa

1

The Yurok

35

The Karok

55

The Wiyot

65

Tolowa and Tututni

89

The Shasta

103

The Achomawi

127

The Klamath

159

Mythology

181
The Gambler of Miskut Wins Good Luck
183
Origin of Medicine for Purifying Defiled Hunters and Weapons
184
Some Adventures of Coyote
184
Pulukuhl-qerreq, the Transformer
185
The Shinny Player of Kewet
187
Some Adventures of Coyote, the Trickster
189
Wahpeku-mau, Seducer of Women
190
Origin of the World
190
Puchur-ghurru, the Transformer
191
The First Shamans
192
How Salmon Were Brought to the Rivers
193
The First Deerskin Dance
195
The Cause of Lightning
195
The Pleiades and Their Pursuer
196
How the Bay Became Salt
196
The Man Who Became a Dog
196
The Sleepy Youth Who Was Saved by Adak-sora-hlukihl
197
Origin of Tobacco
198
The Man Who Caught the Ocean Cougars
199
Hair-seal He Played
199
Gull's Grandmother
200
The Man Who Visited the Creek Spirits
200
Lizard Boy and Grizzly-bear
201
Coyote and Raccoon
202
Beaver Overcomes Coyote
203
Coyote Destroys the Moons Who Kept the Earth Frozen
204
Destruction of the Itssuruqai Monsters
204
Horsefly Outwits Thunder
206
Why Frogs Are in the Water
206
The Creation
206
The Creation
210
Aissis
210
Why There Are No Fish in Crater Lake
212

Appendix

215
Tribal Summary
217

Vocabularies

241
Athapascan
243
Hokan
253
Algonquian
263
Lutuamian
272

Index

277
 
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Vol.14. The Kato. The Wailaki. The Yuki. The Pomo. The Wintun. The Maidu. The Miwok. The Yokuts.

 
  

Vol. 14 Illustrations

 
 
Facing Page
Yokuts Baskets
Frontispiece
A Kato Woman
6
A Kato Matron
8
Tachahaqachile - Kato
10
A Wailaki Woman
14
A Wappo Matron
16
Old Woman in Mourning - Yuki
22
A Yuki Woman
26
Modern Yuki Cabin
26
Construction of a Tule Shelter - Upper Lake Pomo
28
Sherwood Valley Girl - Pomo
30
A Mixed-blood Coast Pomo
32
A Coast Pomo Man
34
On the Shores of Clear Lake
40
Koshonono - Pomo
42
An Eastern Pomo
44
A Pomo Camp
46
A Pomo Girl
48
A Coast Pomo
50
Eastern Pomo Woman
52
In the Tule Swamp - Upper Lake Pomo
56
Pomo Baskets
58
Pomo Baskets and Magnesite Beads
60
Cooking Acorns - Upper Lake Pomo
62
Tule Balsa on Clear Lake
64
Conception Rock near Ukiah - Pomo
66
Basket Used in Puberty Rites - Pomo
68
Pomo Dance Costume
70
A Summer Camp - Lake Pomo
74
On Russian River - Pomo
76
Summer Shelter - Lake Pomo
78
Coast Pomo with Feather Head-dress
80
Coast Pomo Bridal Costume
82
Gathering Tules - Lake Pomo
84
Gathering Seeds - Coast Pomo
86
Camp Under the Oaks - Lake Pomo
88
Pomo Mother and Child
90
On the Merced - Southern Miwok
92
A Southern Miwok
94>
A Southern Miwok - Profile
96
Sifting Basket - Southern Miwok
100
A Southern Miwok Youth
102
On the South Fork of Tule River
104
A Bowlder Milling-stone - Miwok
106
A Southern Miwok Woman
108
Otila - Maidu
110
A Maidu Woman
110
A Maidu Man
114
A Maidu Boy
116
Cradle-basket - Chukchansi Yokuts
118
A Chukchansi Woman
120
A Chukchansi Woman - Profile
122
A Yaudanchi Yokuts Woman
124
A Chukchansi Matron
130
A Chukchansi Yokuts Woman (a)
132
A Chukchansi Yokuts Woman (b)
134
A Chukchansi Head-man
136
A Chief - Chukchansi Yokuts
138
A Yauelmani Yokuts
140
Old Bob - Tachi Yokuts
142
A Chukchansi Yokuts
144
Jack Rowan - Chukchansi Yokuts
146
The Tule Pool - Southern Yokuts
152
A Gem of Basketry - Southern Yokuts
154
The Hunting Basket
156
The Pigeon-blind - Yokuts
158
Entrance to the Painted Cave
160
Looking out of the Painted Cave
166
Chukchansi Cradle-baskets
168
Yokuts Kitchen Utensils and Milling-stone
170
Rattlesnake Design in Yokuts Basketry
172
Animal Designs in Yokuts Basketry
174
Baskets in the Painted Cave - Yokuts
176
Among the Tules - Yokuts
178
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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Fourteen

 

Mitat – Wailaki

 plate no. 472

Old "Ukiah" – Pomo

 plate no. 473

Hunter - Lake Pomo

 plate no. 474

Burden-basket – Pomo

 plate no. 475

Mixed-blood Coast Pomo

 plate no. 476

On the shores of Clear Lake

 plate no. 477

Shatila – Pomo

 plate no. 478

Summer camp - Lake Pomo

 plate no. 479

Wild grapes – Pomo

 plate no. 480

Gathering tules - Lake Pomo

 plate no. 481

Pomo girl

 plate no. 482

Coast Pomo woman

 plate no. 483

Pomo seed-gathering utensils

 plate no. 484

Pomo baskets, mortar, and pestle

 plate no. 485

Pomo baskets, mortar, and pestle

 plate no. 486

Fishing camp - Lake Pomo

 plate no. 487

Aged Pomo woman

 plate no. 488

Aged Pomo woman

 plate no. 489

Wappo

 plate no. 490

Wappo woman

 plate no. 491

Otila – Maidu

 plate no. 492

Miwok head-man

 plate no. 493

Fishing-pool - Southern Miwok

 plate no. 494

Southern Miwok

 plate no. 495

Fisherman - Southern Miwok

 plate no. 496

Chukchansi Yokuts

 plate no. 497

Chukchansi Yokuts

 plate no. 498

Art as old as the tree - southern Yokuts

 plate no. 499

Rattlesnake design in Yokuts basketry

 plate no. 500

By the pool - Tule River Reservation

 plate no. 501

Yokuts basketry designs – A

 plate no. 502

Yokuts basketry designs – B

 plate no. 503

Chukchansi Yokuts type

 plate no. 504

Chukchansi matron

 plate no. 505

Quiet waters - Tule River Reservation

 plate no. 506

Yaundanchi Yokuts woman

 plate no. 507
 

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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.

 
  

Vol. 17 Illustrations

 
 
Facing Page
The cliff-dweller
Frontispiece
A San Juan home
4
A San Juan man
6
Tse-ka - "Douglas Spruce Leaf", cacique of San Juan
8
Good luck dance by San Juan hunters
10
Shrine of Yellow Cloud Man on Tsikumupi - Tewa
12
Winnowing wheat - San Juan
14
Firing pottery - Santa Clara
16
Santa Clara and the Rio Grande
18
A San Juan farmhouse
20
The harvest - San Juan
22
Tewa dance - costume
24
Cleaning wheat - San Juan
26
A kiva at Santa Clara
28
Puye
30
Cave-dwellings at Puye
32
Ruins on the mesa at Puye
34
Oyegi-aye - "Frost Moving", Santa Clara governor
36
Peach harvest - San Ildefonso
38
Pojoaque
40
By the old well at San Juan
42
Tewa war-god effigies
44
San Ildefonso women
46
In Santa Clara
48
Ko-pi - "Buffalo Mountain" - San Juan
50
Okuwa-tsire - "Cloud Bird" - San Ildefonso
52
Eagle dancer - San Ildefonso
54
Tablita woman dancer - San Ildefonso
56
Oyi-sawi - "Ice Terrace" - Santa Clara
58
Tablita dance - San Ildefonso - A
60
Tablita dance - San Ildefonso - B
62
Tablita dance - San Ildefonso - C
64
Tablita dancers returning to the kiva - San Ildefonso
66
Tablita dancers at the kiva - San Ildefonso
68
Tablita dancers - San Ildefonso
70
A kiva at Nambe
72
Yan-tse - "Willow Yellow" - Nambe
74
Pose-aye - "Dew Moving", profile - Nambe
76
Pose-aye - "Dew Moving" - Nambe
78
Fo-e - "Snow Child" - Santa Clara
80
Zuñi
84
Corn Mountain
86
Onate's inscription
88
Monastery and church at Hawikuh
90
Hawikuh - A
92
Hawikuh - B
94
A Zuñi house shrine
96
Zuñi village at Ojo Caliente
98
Zuñi gardens
100
Zuñi pottery
102
A Zuñi doorway
104
Boy and girl columns at Corn Mountain - Zuñi
106
Ruins on Corn Mountain - Zuñi
108
Zuñi water carriers
110
Shiwawatiwa - Zuñi
112
Zuñi ornaments
114
Siyotiwa, Zuñi kyaqimassi
116
A Zuñi girl
118
Laitsanyasitsa - Zuñi
120
A Zuñi man
122
A Zuñi governor
124
Kuse-pi - "Rock-purple Mountain" - San Juan
126
A San Juan matron
128
Yan-tsire - "Willow Bird" - San Ildefonso
130
Povi-yemo - "Flower Falling" - San Ildefonso
132
Agoyo-aye - "Star Moving" - San Ildefonso
134
A Nambe girl
136
Kwaa-Povi - "Bead Flower" - Nambe
138
Mowa - "Shining Light" - Nambe
140
A Santa Clara man
142
Agoyo-tsa - "Star White" - Santa Clara
144
Tambe - "Drum" - Santa Clara
146
A Tesuque ancient
148
Shrine and effigies of the elder war-god on Corn Mountain - Zuñi
150
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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Seventeen

 

Sentinel - San Ildefonso

 plate no. 580

Povi-Tamu ("Flower Morning") - San Ildefonso

 plate no. 581

Okuwa-tse ("Cloud Yellow") - San Ildefonso

 plate no. 582

On the Rio Grande - San Ildefonso

 plate no. 583

Kiva stairs, San Ildefonso

 plate no. 584

Fruit gatherer - San Ildefonso

 plate no. 585

Offering - San Ildefonso

 plate no. 586

San Ildefonso pottery

 plate no. 587

Tablita dancers and singers - San Ildefonso

 plate no. 588

In San Ildefonso

 plate no. 589

Girl and jar - San Ildefonso

 plate no. 590

In the gray morning - San Ildefonso

 plate no. 591

Offering to the sun - San Ildefonso

 plate no. 592

From the threshing floor - San Juan

 plate no. 593

Washing wheat - San Juan

 plate no. 594

Street scene at San Juan

 plate no. 595

Ambrosio Martinez - San Juan

 plate no. 596

San Juan pottery

 plate no. 597

Gossiping - San Juan

 plate no. 598

Offering at the waterfall – Nambe

 plate no. 599

Tesuque buffalo dancers

 plate no. 600

Oyi (Duck White), summer cacique of Santa Clara

 plate no. 601

Potter - Santa Clara

 plate no. 602

Pottery burners at Santa Clara

 plate no. 603

Inscription rock

 plate no. 604

Zuni street scene

 plate no. 605

Grinding medicine – Zuni

 plate no. 606

Zuni governor

 plate no. 607

Load of fuel – Zuni

 plate no. 608

Terraced houses of Zuni

 plate no. 609

Zuni girls at the river

 plate no. 610

Lutakawi, Zuni Governor

 plate no. 611

Waihusiwa, a Zuni kyaqimassi

 plate no. 612

Zuni girl

 plate no. 613

Zuni woman

 plate no. 614

Corner of Zuni

 plate no. 615
 

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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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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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