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Volume: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20



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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.

 

The North American Indian

ii
  

Contents of Volume Two

v
  

Alphabet used in recording Indian Terms

vi
  

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vii

Introduction

xi

The Pima

1
Tribal Characteristics
3
Ceremonies
11
Creation Myth
14

The Papago

25

The Qahatika

39

The Mohave

45
Habitat, Home Life and Social Customs
47
Creation Myth
56
Ceremonies
58

The Yuma

61
Homeland, Arts and Customs
63
Ceremonies
70
Creation Myth
73

The Maricopa

79
Customs, Arts and Beliefs
81
Creation Myth
86

The Walapai

89

The Havasupai

95

The Apache-Mohave, or Yavapai

103

Appendix

107
Tribal Summary
109
Piman Comparative Vocabulary
118
Yuman Comparative Vocabulary
123

Index

129

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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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.

 
  

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.

 
  

Vol. 7 Illustrations

 
 
Facing Page
Camp in the Forest - Kutenai
Frontispiece
Mat Lodge - Yakima
Facing page 4
Drying Piahe - Yakima
6
The Root Digger- Yakima
8
Sons of a Yakima Chief
10
A Young Yakima
12
Mnainak, a Yakima Chief
14
Lishhaiahit - Kittitas
16
A Holiday Lodge - Yakima
18
An Old Man of Waiyam
20
Camp of the Root Diggers - Yakima
22
Author's Temporary Camp
24
Deserted Lodge - Yakima
26
Yakima Boy
28
On the Move - Spokan
30
A Hill Camp - Spokan
32
Skuhun - Klickitat
34
Mitsa - Klickitat
38
Flathead Buffalo-skin Lodge
40
Flathead Young Woman
42
Nine Pipes - Flathead
44
Flathead Warrior
46
Not Indian - Flathead
48
Many Bears - Flathead
50
Red Owl - Flathead
52
Ahlahlemila - Flathead
54
Door-of-lodge Grizzly - Flathead
56
Jerking Meat - Flathead
58
Drying Meat - Flathead
60
Flathead Type
Facing page 62
On Nespilim Creek
64
A Dance in the Forest - Flathead
66
A Drink - Flathead
68
Flathead Mother
70
A Flathead Chief
72
Flathead Maiden
74
Flathead Horse Trappings
76
Flathead Baby-carrier
78
Kalispel Village
80
Touch Her Dress - Kalispel
82
Kalispel Canoes
84
Kalispel Camp
86
Masselow, Kalispel Chief
92
The Peace-officer - Kalispel
94
Chief Of The Land - Kalispel
96
The Chief's Wife - Kalispel
98
Crossing the Pend d'Oreille - Kalispel
100
Kalispel Maiden
102
Young Kalispel Girl
104
Kalispel Youth
106
Shirt - Kalispel
108
Home of the Kalispel
110
On the Pend d'Oreille - Kalispel
112
Spokan Woman
114
On Flathead Lake - Kutenai
116
Kutenai Woman
118
Not Grizzly-bear - Kutenai
120
Dressing Skins - Kutenai
122
Kutenai Type
126
Kutenai Profile
128
Kutenai Maiden
130
Komitsa - Kutenai
134
Kutenai Female Type
136
A Young Kutenai
140
A Kutenai Man
146
Kutenai Girls at the Lake-shore
Facing page 148
Kutenai Canoe
150
Evening on Flathead Lake
152
Author's Camp among the Spokan
154
Returning to Camp - Spokan
156
Spokan Matron
158
Klickitat Basketry
160
Pukimanstula - Spokan
162
Typical Spokan Woman
164
In the Mountains - Spokan
166
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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Seven

 

Inashah – Yakima

 plate no. 220

Wife of Mnainak – Yakima

 plate no. 221

Wishnai – Yakima

 plate no. 222

Camp of the Yakima

 plate no.223

Mountain camp – Yakima

 plate no. 224

Klickitat type

 plate no.225

Klickitat profile

 plate no. 226

Flathead type

 plate no. 227

Flathead profile

 plate no. 228

Flathead chief

 plate no. 229

Big Knife – Flathead

 plate no. 230

Flathead camp

 plate no. 231

Flathead camp on Jocko River

 plate no. 232

Stormy day – Flathead

 plate no. 233

Flathead dance

 plate no. 234

Flathead childhood

 plate no. 235

By the river – Flathead

 plate no. 236

Kalispel type

 plate no. 237

Dusty dress – Kalispel

 plate no. 238

Village of the Kalispel

 plate no. 239

Kalispel scene

 plate no. 240

Spokan man

 plate no. 241

On Spokane River

 plate no. 242

Spokan camp

 plate no. 243

Nespilim man

 plate no. 244

Nespilim woman

 plate no. 245

Nespilim girl

 plate no. 246

Luqaiot – Kittitas

 plate no. 247

Country of the Kutenai

 plate no. 248

Kutenai duck hunter

 plate no. 249

Embarking – Kutenai

 plate no. 250

On the shore of the lake – Kutenai

 plate no. 251

Crossing the lake – Kutenai

 plate no. 252

Kutenai girls

 plate no. 253

Kutenai camp

 plate no. 254

Rush gatherer – Kutenai

 plate no. 255
 

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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.

 
  

Vol. 9 Illustrations

 
 
Facing Page
In the Forest - Quinault
Frontispiece
Shores of Puget Sound
Facing page 4
Shores of Shoalwater Bay
6
On Shoalwater Bay
8
The Mouth of Quinault River
10
On Skokomish River
12
Cowichan Warrior
14
Quinault War Canoes
16
Shoalwater Bay Type
18
Shoalwater Bay Profile
20
Lahkeudup - Skokomish
22
Kalasetsah - Skokomish
24
Bahlkabuh - Skokomish
26
Yalqablu - Skokomish
28
Family Party - Puget Sound
30
Cowichan River
32
Qamutsun Village - Cowichan
34
Henipsum Village - Cowichan
36
Cowichan Woman
38
Primitive Dress - Quinault
40
Shell Ornaments - Quinault
42
Cowichan Houseframe
44
Cowichan Housefront
46
Puget Sound Camp
48
Settling the Net - Quinault
50
Lifting the Net - Quinault
52
Going for Clams - Quinault
54
Digging Clams - Puget Sound
56
Digging Skunk-cabbage Roots
58
Canoe Finishing - Quinault
60
Skokomish Baskets
Facing page 62
Basket Maker
64
Quinault Handiwork
66
Quinault Berry Picker
68
Looking up Cowichan River
70
Goat-hair Blanket
72
Warrior's Scalp Head-dress - Cowichan
74
Warrior's Feather Head-dress - Cowichan
76
Tsatsalaltsa - Quilcene
78
Lotsubelo - Quilcene
80
Gathering Tules - Cowichan
82
Tying the Bundle - Cowichan
84
The Head-strap - Cowichan
86
Homeward Bound - Cowichan
88
Drying Tules - Cowichan
90
Quinault Female Type
92
Quinault Female Profile
94
Kaktsamah - Cowlitz
96
River Canoes - Quinault
98
Quinault Canoes
100
River "Shovelnose" Canoes - Quinault
102
Quinault Girl
104
A Quinault Type
106
Carved Figure - Cowichan
108
A Mat Shelter - Skokomish
110
Tule Gatherers - Puget Sound
112
A Cowichan Mask
114
Masked Dancer - Cowichan
116
Still Life - Puget Sound
118
Grave House - Snohomish
120
On the River - Puget Sound
122
A Primitive Camp
124
On Quinault River
126
A Skokomish Camp
128
Watching for the Salmon - Quinault
130
Quinault Houses
132
Hop Pickers - Puget Sound
Facing page 134
Chimakum Woman
136
Chimakum Female Type
138
Chimakum Female Profile
140
Silto - Quilliute
142
Silto - Quilliute
144
Quilliute Girl
146
Hoh Type
148
Hoh Profile
150
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List of Large Plates Supplementing Volume Nine

 

Primitive Quinault

 plate no.293

Quinault female type

 plate no. 294

Quinault female profile

 plate no. 295

Mouth of Quinault River

 plate no. 296

On Quinault River

 plate no. 297

Hleastunuh – Skokomish

 plate no. 298

Tsatsalatsa – Skokomish

 plate no. 299

Chief's daughter – Skokomish

 plate no. 300

Mat house – Skokomish

 plate no. 301

Fishing camp – Skokomish

 plate no. 302

Quilcene boy

 plate no. 303

Lelehalt – Quilcene

 plate no. 304

Suquamish woman

 plate no. 305

Suquamish girl

 plate no. 306

Squaxon matron

 plate no. 307

Puget Sound type

 plate no. 308

Puget Sound baskets

 plate no. 309

Basket maker

 plate no. 310

Basket carrier

 plate no. 311

Evening on Puget Sound

 plate no. 312

Mussel gatherer

 plate no. 313

Princess Angeline

 plate no. 314

Tule gatherer – Cowichan

 plate no. 315

Sunset on Puget Sound

 plate no. 316

Clam digger

 plate no. 317

Homeward

 plate no. 318

Snoqualmu type

 plate no. 319

Lummi type

 plate no. 320

Lummi woman

 plate no. 321

Cowichan warrior

 plate no. 322

Cowichan girl

 plate no. 323

Spearing salmon – Cowichan

 plate no. 324

Cowichan canoes

 plate no. 325

Masked dancer – Cowichan

 plate no. 326

Cowichan River

 plate no. 327

Quamichan Lake

 plate no. 328
 

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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

v
  

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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.

 
 
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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

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Introduction

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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
Collapse the Illustrations and Portfolio of Volume 20

Portfolio 20

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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