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Excerpt from Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, 1916, Vol. 17The horse culture complex of the American Indian offers an excellent opportunity to study diffusion, because most of the essential facts are obtainable. The horse was introduced by Europeans at an early date and spread ahead of interior exploration. In particular, many of the tribes west of the Mississippi River became. Horsemen before their discovery b...

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About the Book Books about Native American Studies consider aspects of the history, culture, community, and current experience of indigenous peoples in North and South America since the arrival of Europeans. Titles include: A Plea for the Indians: With Facts and Features of the Late War in Oregon, The Serpent Symbol and the Worship of the Reciprocal Principles of Nature in America, Birds Without a Nest: A Story of Indian Life and Priestly Oppr...

Excerpt from Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 3: The Indians of Greater New York and the Lower HudsonPompton Plains Bear Rock Towakhow Rockland County, New York Tome Brook Torne Mountain Ramapo River Pound 'hill Mine Hill Orange County, New York Tuxedo Horsestable Rock Goshen Mountain Ancient Shel] Heaps near New York City. By M. R. Harrington Notes on the Mohegan and Niantic Indians (plates XXI - XXIV). F...

Excerpt from The Correlation of Mental and Physical Tests In the following pages only such statements of the method have been offered as will enable the reader to understand the force of the results. In correlation it need only be borne in mind that we are using an accepted method to estimate the relative necessary relations between the phenomena under con sideration. To make any such comparison at all we must assign our results a place in a ...

Excerpt from Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 11: Societies of the Plains Indians Anthropological Papers American Museum of Natural History. [v0]. XI, The seven chiefs, often assisted by the four shirt wearers and the whole chiefs society, elect four officers (wakic'un) to organize and control the camp. All except the four shirt wearers are eligible to this office. These men serve for about one year. It s...

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A contemporary history of one of the best-known American Indian nations.

Clark Wissler (1870¿1947) was curator at the American Museum of Natural History and chairman of the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of North American Indians of the Plains and Man and Culture. Alice Beck Kehoe is the author of many books, including North American Indians: A Comprehensive Account, America Before the European Invasions, and the anthropology textbook Humans. Darrell Kipp (Blackfoot) is the dire...

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Excerpt from Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 1: Part II, Some Protective Designs of the Dakota According to the same author, in pre-columbian times some of the Pueblo Indians used a thick disk of buffalo-hide as a shield. On the Plains, from the Rio Grande to the Saskatchewan, the circular shield of buffalo-hide was, until the extinction of the buffalo, a part Of the regalia of every warrior. These shiel...

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This book was first published in 1915 by the American Museum of Natural History as part of a series of anthropological papers reflecting the results of various research endeavors conducted by the museum's Department of Anthropology. Costumes is a comparative study which addresses the forms and distribution of Plains Indian men's shirts, coats, and women's dresses. This reprinting endeavors to reintroduce this piece of basic research back into ...

Excerpt from North American Indians of the Plains, Vol. 1 Social organization The Camp Circle. Marriage. Government. Soldier Bands or Societies. Social Distinction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, pr...

Excerpt from The American Indian: An Introduction to the Anthropology of the New World This book is offered as a general summary of anthropological research in the New World. It is in the main a by-product of the author's activities as a museum curator in which capacity he has sought to objectify and systematize the essential facts relating to aboriginal America. Thus, he is first of all indebted to the American Museum of Natural History for ...