When Emmons died in 1945, he left behind a mass of materials for a 65 line drawings, and 127 bandw photos. book on the Tlingit which he had begun as early as the 1880s, when he was stationed in Alaska with the US Navy. Ethnologist and archaeologist Frederica de Laguna has spent 30 years organizing Emmons ethnographic data, notes, drawings, sketches, and manuscripts, and has made significant additions from other sources and her own information, putting the entirety in chronological order, to present this invaluable ethnography of the Northwest Coast. Includes a biography of Emmons by Jean Low, as well as an extensive bibliography, 37 tables, Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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 seems to have been the custom to te-elect two or three of them so as to have experienced men in office. In former times, the tendency was for the people to scatter out in winter, but early in the spring the camp circle was formed and its government organized. This was initiated by the selection of the wakicun. 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, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 3: The Indians of Greater New York and the Lower Hudson Pompton 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. G. Speck. Introduction The Mohegan Indians Local Traditions Material Life Clothing and Ornaments Customs and Miscellaneous Notes Shamanism Beliefs and Folk-lore Myths The Scaticook Indians The western Niantic Indians Archaeology of the New York Coastal Algonkin. By Alanson Introduction Chipped Articles Arrow Points Spear Points and Knives Scrapers Drills Rough Stone Articles Hammerstones Net-sinkers Hoes Hand Choppers Grooved Axes Celts Adzes Gouges Pestles Mullers, Grinders, and Polishing Stones Sinew Stones Stone Mortars Pigments, Paint-cups, etc. 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, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 16: Sun Dance of the Plains Indians The last Crow sun dance dates back to about forty years ago, for with the Old warfare disappeared the sole raison d'etre 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 began my inquiries in 1907, the following account is based on the statements of mere eye-witnesses and participants who played a minor part. Within the limitations thus imposed, the data seem satisfactory. I recorded independent descriptions of the entire ceremony by Gray-bull, Muskrat, Bear-gets-up, the F ire-weasel couple, Bear-crane, and others; and the accounts given in 1910 by the two informants heading this list were checked by having them repeat their narratives from beginning to end in the following summer. Ralph Saeo (bighorn District), Henry Russel (pryor), Robert Yellowtail (lodge Grass), and James Carpenter (lodge Grass) are the interpreters who assisted me during this work. I am under special Obligations to James Carpenter, who spared no pains in ascertaining additional facts from various native authori ties and gave me the benefit Of the information thus obtained by his own efforts. 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, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.