Chippewa CustomsMinnesota Historical Society Press, 1979 - 204 σελίδες "Using information obtained between 1907 and 1925 from members of the Chippewa tribe, the Bureau of American Ethnology, and the United States National Museum, the book describes various Chippewa customs. Information, collected on six reservations in Minnesota and Wisconsin and the Manitou Rapids Reserve in Ontario, Canada, is provided concerning the tribe's name; totemic system; phonetics; dwellings; clothing; treatment of the face; hair care and arrangement; food; health measures; care, naming, government, pastimes, and playthings of children; puberty; courtship and marriage; death, burial, and mourning; significance of dreams; Midewiwin; stories and legends; music; dances; charms; games; the industrial year; chiefs; right of revenge; war customs; transportation; methods of measuring time, distance, and quantity; exchange of commodities within the tribe; payment of annuity; traders and trading posts; making and using fire; pipes; bows and arrows; snowshoes; making of pitch; torches; canoes; twine; fish nets; weaving mats, bags, bands, blankets of rabbit skin, and head ornament of moose hair; netting of belts; basketry; pottery; dyes; tanning; glue; musical instruments (drum, rattle, flute, clapper); articles made of stone, bone, and wood; applique work; memory devices; picture writing; decorative arts; and beadwork. Portraits, black and white illustrations, and reminiscences of the informants are provided throughout the book. (NQA)"--Microfiche cat records. |
Περιεχόμενα
Foreword | |
Name of tribe | |
Phonetics | |
Dwellings | |
Manner of life in the wigwam | 4 |
Food | 16 |
Treatment of the sick | 20 |
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Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
Algonquian Amer AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN arrow band basswood basswood fiber beads beadwork berries birch bark blanket boiled bone braid Bull BULLETIN 86 PLATE BUREAU OF AMERICAN camp Canadian Chippewa canoe cedar charms child cloth color cord cradle board custom decorated deer Densmore Densmore’s dream dried drum Ethn ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 86 fastened father fire fish frame Frances Densmore ground hair hide inches long Indian kettle Lake Lake Superior lived lodge Madeline Island man’s manido manner maple sugar mats medicine Mide Midewiwin Mille Lac Minn moccasin mother nets Niskigwun Odinigun Ojibway pattern person piece pipe placed poles rice sewed shown in Plate side Sioux smoke snowshoe songs spirit stick stone strips sweat lodge tipi tobacco traders tribe twine usually weaving White Earth wigwam Winabojo winter woman women wood wooden worn woven yarn