Notes on the Hidatsa Indians Based on the Data Recorded by the Late Gilbert L. Wilson
Description: softcover, 141 pp. (19x25,5), 18 figures
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Bella Weitzner, Notes on the Hidatsa Indians Based on the Data Recorded by the Late Gilbert L. Wilson, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Volume 56, Part 2, New York 1979
Preface Abstract Introduction Subsistence Agriculture Squash Tobacco Hunting Butchering and Transportation Rocky Mountain Sheep Bird Hunting Small Game Fishing Fish Trap Techniques, Implements, and Cooking Food and its Preparation Material Culture Costume and Personal Adornment Costume Hoods Moccasins Hairdress Hair Switches Personal Cleanliness Perfumes Tattooing Assiniboin Tattooing Hidatsa and Mandan Tattooing Tattooing of "Poor-Wolf' Weapons Bows Rocky Mountain Sheep Horn Bows Flint-Headed Bows Drawing the Bow Arrow Release Arrows Arrowheads Quivers and Bow Cases Wristguards Archer's Gloves Lances Transportation Bullboats Skin Rafts Burden Carriers Water Carrying Manufactures Skin Dressing Painting a Skin Black Paint Quillwork Cloud Stones and Beads Wood Working Wooden Bowls Cradles Stone Implements Pipes Flint Blades Pottery Horn Spoons Buffalo Heart Skin Buckets Buffalo Paunch Buckets Dice Baskets Storage Swings Backrests Grass Cord Sage Musical Instruments Glue Fire and Fuel Life Cycle Childbirth and Infancy Childhood Learning to Ride Horses Training of Girls Learning Correct Social Conduct Children's Stories Courtship and Marriage Divorce Death, Burial, and Mourning Government, Warfare, and Social Honors Chiefs Crime and Punishment War Customs War Honors Women's Honors Games and Amusements Women's Games Arrow Shooting Contests Children's Games Races Supernaturalism Animal Beliefs Indwelling Spirits Gods Ghosts Vision Experiences Miscellaneous Notes Dancing Booth Division of Labor Trailing Trade Smoking Customs Medicines Literature Cited FIGURES 1. Digging stick, bone hoe, and rake. 2. Squash, cut into strips to dry. 3. Hoeing beans. 4. Corn husking: braiding the best ears. 5. Rsh trap. 6. Man dismantling fish trap. 7. Calf-woman by old fashioned tripod. 8. A Hidatsa wearing a painted robe, foreground. 9. Hairy-coat and wife. 10. Making a bow. 11. Making a bowstring. 12. Building a bullboat: the ends of the upper ribs are bent. 13. Trimming edge of bullboat cover: boat skin stayed by ends of ribs. 14. Completed boat leaning against fence post and facing sun to dry. 15. Frame of old-fashioned earthlodge. 16. Wolf-chiefs earthlodge. 17. Example of Hidatsa face painting. 18. Pony race, 1908.
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