Societies of the Plains Indians
By: edited by Clark Wissler.
Series: Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History ;; v. 11.
Publisher: AMS Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1031
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Rites and ceremonies; Indian dance -- Great Plains; Secret societies -- Great Plains
Notes: Bibliography: p. 987-992.
Reprint of v. 11 of Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, published in 13 pts. from 1912 to 1916.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Wissler, C. Societies and ceremonial associations in the Oglala division of the Teton-Dakota.; title: pt. 2. Lowie, R. H. Dance associations of the eastern Dakota.; title: pt. 3. Lowie, R. H. Societies of the Crow, Hidatsa, and Mandan Indians.; title: pt. 4. Wissler, C. Societies and dance associations of the Blackfoot Indians.; title: pt. 5. Goddard, P. E. Dancing societies of the Sarsi Indians.; title: pt. 6. Skinner, A. Political organization, cults, and ceremonies of the Plains-Ojibway and Plains-Cree Indians.; title: pt. 7. Murie, J. R. Pawnee Indian societies.; title: pt. 8. Lowie, R. H. Societies of the Arikara Indians.; title: pt. 9. Skinner, A. Societies of the Iowa, Kansa, and Ponca Indians.; title: pt. 10. Lowie, R. H. Dances and societies of the Plains Shoshone.; title: pt. 11. Lowie, R. H. Societies of the Kiowa.; title: pt. 12. Wissler, C. General discussion of shamanistic and dancing societies.; title: pt. 13. Lowie, R. H. Plains Indian age-societies: historical and comparative summary.