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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.

 
 
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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

ii
  

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.

 
 
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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.

 

The North American Indian

ii
  

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.

 
  

Vol. 15 Illustrations

 
 
Facing Page
Andres Canon - Cahuilla
Frontispiece
Moriar Pits - Cupeno
6
Sandstone Vessels from Santa Catalina Island
8
Streatite vessels from Santa Catalina Island
10
Basketry of the Mission Indians (a)
12
Basketry of the Mission Indians
14
Southern Shoshonean
16
A Cupeno Woman
18
A Cupeno Female Type
20
Site of Prehistoric Village - Cahuilla
22
Ancient Shore of Salton Sea
24
Remains of ancient fish-pounds - A
26
Fiesta camp - Cahuilla
28
A Cahuilla child
30
Remains of ancient fish-pounds - B
32
A desert Cahuilla woman
34
Desert Cahuilla home
36
Modern rancheria at Santa Ysabel - Diegueño
38
A Santa Ysabel woman - Diegueño
40
A southern Digueño woman
42
Monkey Face - Mesa Grande Digueño
44
A northern Digueño type
46
A Campo female type - Diegueño
48
Communal ceremonial shelter at Capitan Grande - Diegueño
50
Summer shelter at Campo - Diegueño
52
An Owens Valley Mono
54
A Mono type
56
Mono house near Independence
58
A Lake Mono basket-maker
60
Mono basketry
62
Mono summer shelter
64
Mono summer kitchen
66
Pavaish - Pyramid Lake Paviotso
68
The ancient shore of Walker Lake
70
Western shore of Walker Lake
72
Paviotso basketry
74
Modern Paviotso beadwork
76
Paviotso house at Walker Lake
78
Paviotso woman of Pyramid Lake
80
Su-donii - "Osier-willow blossom" - Pyramid Lake Paviotso
82
Volcanic mud formation at Pyramid Lake
84
Bob Lowry - Pyramid Lake Paviotso
86
Phallic rock painting at Walker Lake
88
Washo house
92
Washo cradle-baskets
94
A Washo gem
96
Captain Pete, Namina - Washo
98
Scraping a deerskin - Washo
100
Primitive Chemehuevi dwelling
104
Chemehuevi house on Colorado River
106
Chemehuevi granary
108
Chemehuevi basketry and pottery
110
Cahuilla house in the desert
112
Modern houses at Palm Springs - Cahuilla
114
The harvester - Cahuilla
116
Palm fruit
118
Under the palms - Cahuilla
120
A desert Cahuilla female type
122
Marcos - Palm Canon Cahuilla
124
A man of Palm Springs - Cahuilla
126
A woman of Palm Springs - Cahuilla
128
Modernized house at Capitan Grande - Digueño
130
Modern house at Mesa Grande - Digueño
132
A Capitan Grande man - Digueño
134
A Capitan Grande woman - Digueño
136
A Mesa Grande man - Digueño
138
A Santa Ysabel man - Digueño
140
A young woman of Campo - Digueño
142
Paviotso female type
144
Pahu-Kumaa - "Sunflower Edge" - Walker Lake Paviotso
146
A Paviotso woman of Walker Lake
148
A Pyramid Lake matron - Paviotso
150
Washo burden-basket and trinket-basket
152
Washo basketry designs
154
A Washo woman
156
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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Fifteen

 

Before the white man came - Palm Cañon

 plate no. 508

Basketry of the Mission Indians

 plate no. 509

Cupeño woman

 plate no. 510

Modern Cupeño house

 plate no. 511

Serrano woman of Tejon

 plate no. 512

Tejon Serrano

 plate no. 513

Modern house at Tejon

 plate no. 514

Chemehuevi house

 plate no. 515

Home in the Mesquite – Chemehuevi

 plate no. 516

Marcos - Palm Cañon Cahuillavi

 plate no. 517

Home in the Mesquite – Chemehuevi

 plate no. 518

Numero - Desert Cahuilla

 plate no. 519

Cahuilla house in the deserti

 plate no. 520

Under the palms – Cahuillai

 plate no. 521

Desert Cahuilla womani

 plate no. 522

Andres canoni

 plate no. 523

Diegueño homei

 plate no. 524

Diegueño house at Campo

 plate no. 525

Diegueño of Capitan Grande

 plate no. 526

Diegueño woman of Santa Ysabel

 plate no. 527

Southern Diegueño house

 plate no. 528

Southern Diegueño

 plate no. 529

Diegueño woman of Campo

 plate no. 530

Degueño house at Santa Ysabel

 plate no. 531

Diegueño of Santa Ysabel

 plate no. 532

Mono home

 plate no. 533

Shores of Walker Lake

 plate no. 534

Pyramid Lake Paviotso

 plate no. 535

Primitive artist – Paviotso

 plate no. 536

Aged Paviotso of Pyramid Lake

 plate no. 537

Fishing with a gaff-hook – Paviotso

 plate no. 538

Walker Lake Paviotso

 plate no. 539

Datsolali, Washo basket-maker

 plate no. 540

Washo baskets

 plate no. 541

Modern designs in Washo basketry

 plate no. 542

Washo woman

 plate no. 543
 

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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.

 
  

Vol. 18 Illustrations

 
 
Facing Page
A Blackfoot
Frontispiece
A Chipewyan tipi
4
Nasurethur - Chipewyan
6
Nasurethur, profile - Chipewyan
8
A Chipewyan woman
10
Camp among the aspens - Chipewyan
12
Berry-pickers in camp - Chipewyan
14
Calling a moose - Cree
16
A Cree
18
Cree fishing camp
20
Picking blueberries - Cree
22
A Piegan woman
24
Makoyepuk - "Wolf-child" - Blood
26
Niukskai-Stamik - "Three Bulls" - Blood
28
An old woman - Blood
30
Atso Tohkomi - "Call-on-all-sides" - Blood
32
Astanihkyi - "Come-singing" - Blood
34
A travois - Blackfoot
36
A typical Blackfoot
38
A Blackfoot soldier
40
Blackfoot finery
42
A Blackfoot woman
44
Blackfoot cookery
46
Kaistosinikyi - "Kill-for-nothing" - Blood
48
Cree tipis
60
Isqe-sis - "Woman Small" - and child - Cree
62
Cree boatwomen
64
A Cree camp
66
Landing - Cree
68
Birchbark baskets - Cree
70
Mawinehikis - "Tries-to-excel" - Cree
72
Lac les Isles - Cree
74
A Cree girl
76
Wapistan - "Marten" - Cree
78
Napeu - "Man" - Cree
80
A Cree canoe
82
Frame of the sponsor's tipi, Cree sun-dance
84
Cree woman with fur robe
86
Aki-tanni - "Two Guns" - Sarsi
92
Typical female physiognomy - Sarsi
94
Ka'ni - Sarsi
96
A Sarsi tipi
98
A Sarsi woman
100
A Sarsi kitchen
102
Missi-tsatsa - "Owl Old-woman" - Sarsi
104
A Piegan play tipi
106
A Blood horseman
108
Modern Blackfoot burial
110
Bow River and the sandhills - Blackfoot
112
In a Blackfoot camp
114
A medicine-bag - Blackfoot
116
Frame of the sun-lodge - Piegan
118
Offerings in the sun-lodge - Piegan
120
Central post of the sun lodge - Piegan
122
A Piegan war-bonnet
148
Oksoy-Apiw - "Raw-eater Old-man" - Blackfoot
156
Itsipstsinikyi - "Kills-inside" - Piegan
158
Piksohkomi - "Calling-bird" - Piegan
162
Assiniboin bowman
164
The chief - Assiniboin
166
Assiniboin camp near the Rocky Mountains
168
Woman's costume and baby swing - Assiniboin
170
Assiniboin camp on Bow River
172
Painted tipis - Assiniboin
174
A chief's son - Assiniboin
176
Akatsim-atsissi - "Whistle Smoke" - Piegan
178
A Piegan tipi
180
Transporting the ceremonial bag and tipi-cover of a Blackfoot society
182
A beaver-bundle - Blackfoot
184
A Blackfoot ceremonial bag
186
Fat horse, with insignia of a Blackfoot soldier
188
Head-dress of Matoki Society - Blood
190
Lodge of the Horn Society - Blood
192
Blackfoot war-bonnet
194
A Blackfoot tipi
196
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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Eighteen

 

A Chipewyan tipi among the aspens

 plate no. 616

Titishu-kghitluhl ("Deer Running")

 plate no. 617

Tsaaassi-mis-salla ("Crow with Necklace") - Sarsi

 plate no. 618

Muwu ("His Tooth") – Sarsi

 plate no. 619

A Sarsi camp

 plate no. 620

A Cree canoe on Lac Les Isles

 plate no. 621

A Cree girl

 plate no. 622

Moose hunter – Cree

 plate no. 623

Cree tipis

 plate no. 624

Moss for the baby-bags – Cree

 plate no. 625

A Cree

 plate no. 626

A Cree woman

 plate no. 627

A Cree camp at Lac les Isles

 plate no. 628

Chief Hector – Assiniboin

 plate no. 629

Assiniboin hunter

 plate no. 630

Kindling fire – Assiniboin

 plate no. 631

Assiniboin mother and child

 plate no. 632

Painted tipi – Assiniboin

 plate no. 633

Placating the spirit of a slain eagle – Assiniboin

 plate no. 634

Agichide – Assiniboin

 plate no. 635

Blackfoot country

 plate no. 636

A Blackfoot travois

 plate no. 637

Medicine-headdress – Blackfoot

 plate no. 638

Oksoyapiw – Blackfoot

 plate no. 639

Bear Bull – Blackfoot

 plate no. 640

Calf Child – Blackfoot

 plate no. 641

Blackfoot tipis

 plate no. 642

Fleshing a hide – Blackfoot

 plate no. 643

Bow River – Blackfoot

 plate no. 644

Lodge of the Horn Society – Blood

 plate no. 645

Sacred bags of the Horn Society – Blood

 plate no. 646

Makoyepuk ("Wolf-child") – Blood

 plate no. 647

Apio-mita ("White Dog") – Blood

 plate no. 648

Astanighkyi ("Come-singing") – Blood

 plate no. 649

Stsimaki ("Reluctant-to-be-woman") – Blood

 plate no. 650

Soyaksin - Blood

 plate no. 651
 

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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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