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Reproduction of the original: The Social Life of the Blackfoot Indians by Clark Wissler

Reproduction of the original: The Social Life of the Blackfoot Indians by Clark Wissler

Reproduction of the original: Some Protective Designs of the Dakota by Clark Wissler

Reproduction of the original: Some Protective Designs of the Dakota by Clark Wissler

Reproduction of the original: The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians by Clark Wissler

Reproduction of the original: The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot Indians by Clark Wissler

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 11: Societies of the Plains IndiansAnthropological 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 see...

Excerpt from Costumes of the Plains IndiansThe structural analysis of the specimens was largely the work of my assistant, Mr. S. Ichikawa, who is to that extent a joint contributor. The drawings should also be credited to him.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-t...

Excerpt from The Correlation of Mental and Physical TestsIn 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 sc...

Excerpt from Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 16: Sun Dance of the Plains IndiansThe last Crow sun dance dates back to about forty years ago, for with the Old warfare disappeared the sole raison d'étre Of the performance from the Crow point Of view. The notes presented in this paper are therefore not at all based on personal Observation. Moreover, as none of the main performers survived to the time when I ...

Excerpt from Anthropological Papers American the of Natural History, Social Organization and Ritualistic of the Blackfoot Indians, Blackfoot, Vol. 7The names of Blackfoot bands are not animal terms but characterizations in no wise different from tribal names. Those of the Assiniboine, Gros Ventre, Arapaho, Cheyenne, and teton-dakota are, so far as reported, essentially of the same class. It seems then that the name system for these bands is th...

Excerpt from Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 7: Part I, the Social Life of the Blackfoot IndiansThe names of Blackfoot bands are not animal terms but characterizations in no wise different from tribal names. Those of the Assiniboine, Gros Ventre, Arapaho, Cheyenne, and teton-dakota are, so far as reported, essentially of the same class. It seems then that the name system for these bands is the same among ...

Excerpt from The Influence of the Horse in the Development of Plains CultureIndians, also mules and asses, and on their return to Canada mention the horses of their Assiniboine companions.1 On this journey to the Rocky mountains they seem to have passed down west of the Black hills and to have reached the mountains in Wyoming or Colorado and on the return trip to have struck the Missouri in Nebraska or South Dakota. They were in fear of the Sn...

Excerpt from North American Indians of the Plains, Vol. 1Medicine Bundles. Tribal Ceremonies. The Sun Dance. Ghost Dance Ceremonies. Peyote Worship. Dancing Asso ciations. War and Scalp Dances. Ceremonial Procedure.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art tech...

Excerpt from Rice as a World FoodChina as a whole as being fully de pendent upon rice, though rice is the chief food in the southern provinces.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format...

Excerpt from Rice as a World FoodChina as a whole as being fully de pendent upon rice, though rice is the chief food in the southern provinces.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format...

Excerpt from Material Culture of the Blackfoot IndiansThe Blood and Blackfoot traded at the mouth of Vermillion River and at Fort Augustus (edmonton) which would place them northeast of the Piegan.5 All accounts agree in placing the Blood adjacent to the Piegan, and Mac kenzie 6 states that they ranged on the south branch of the Saskatchewan. This would be along the Red Deer River and southward. Somewhere to the east or northeast of these were...

Excerpt from Riding Gear of the North American IndiansThe 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 by Europeans. The history of horse intr...