Wings in the desert
Subtitle: a folk ornithology of the northern Pimans
By: Amadeo M. Rea ; linguistic consultant, Culver Cassa ; bird sketches by Allan Brooks ... [et al.].
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780816524594
Subjects: Tohono O'odham Indians -- Ethnozoology; Tohono O'odham Indians -- Ethnobiology; Tohono O'odham Indians -- Folklore; Ornithology -- Southwest, New; Birds -- Southwest, New -- Classification; Birds -- Southwest, New -- Folklore
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Northern Pimans and their environment; title: Native consultants; title: Documentary sources; title: An overview of avian folk taxonomy; title: Birds, guardians, shamans, and healers; title: Bird keeping and rearing; title: Feather use; title: Hunting and trapping, game preparation and cooking; title: Plan of the folk generics (biological species accounts); title: The species accounts.