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  • Long Sword and Scabbard Slide in Asia 
    Trousdale, William (1975)
    The scabbard slide is a distinctive carrying device developed 2,500 years ago for the long, iron, equestrian sword. The history of the long sword and scabbard slide in Asia begins and ends in the same region, the steppelands ...
  • Material Culture of the Numa: The John Wesley Powell Collection, 1867-1880 
    Fowler, Don D.; Matley, John F. (1979)
    Between 1867 and 1880 John Wesley Powell made collections of material culture items from several Numic-speaking Indian groups in the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau regions of the western United States. The collections ...
  • Modernization of Three Korean Villages, 1951-1981: An Illustrated Study of a People and Their Material Culture 
    Knez, Eugene I. (1997)
    The "totality" of artifacts in three distinct villages, now consolidated into a city ward, represent an ethnohistorical perspective of material culture within a specific time-level of cultural evolution. Detailed descriptions ...
  • Muskogean Charm Songs Among the Oklahoma Cherokees 
    Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick; Kilpatrick, Anna Gritts (1967)
    Manuscript works on medicine and magic among the Oklahoma Cherokees sometimes contain idi:gawé:sdi (<I>to be said, them, by one</I>) or the texts of charm songs that, although written or partially written in the Sequoyah ...
  • Native Polity of Ponape 
    Riesenberg, Saul H. (1968)
    The island of Ponape lies at 6&amp;deg;54&amp;prime; north latitude and 158&amp;deg;14&amp;prime; east longitude, near the eastern end of the archipelago that comprises the Caroline Islands. Ponape and the nearby atolls ...
  • Navajo Political Process 
    Williams, Aubrey W., Jr. (1970)
    The purpose of this work is to describe the function of various political structures and their incorporation into the Navajo way of life. The data presented in this study were collected over a 2-year period-January 1961 ...
  • New Zealand Artifacts from the United States "Transit of Venus Expedition," 1874-1875 
    Keyes, Ian W. (1967)
    On Monday, June 8, 1874, just over 90 years ago, the U.S. steamer <I>Swatara</I>, under Comdr. Ralph Chandler, U.S. Navy, sailed from New York Harbor-her destination, the remote sub-Antarctic Crozet and Kerguelen Islands, ...
  • Notebook of a Cherokee Shaman 
    Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick; Kilpatrick, Anna Gritts (1970)
    Ade:lagh(a)dhí:ya Ga:n(i)sgawi1 was the exemplification of a type institutional in Cherokee culture for well over a hundred years: the medicine man who was also a Christian preacher; who in tribal affairs led in the manner ...
  • Notes on the History and Material Culture of the Tonkawa Indians 
    Jones, William K. (1969)
    One of the little-known tribes of central Texas was the Tonkawa. Few objects made and used by the Tonkawa are preserved in museum collections, and no description of traditional Tonkawa material culture, based upon a study ...
  • Of Cabbages and Kings: Tales from Zinacantán 
    Laughlin, Robert M. (1977)
    This collection of 173 folktales, myths, legends, and personal reminiscences from Zinacantán, Chiapas, Mexico was recorded in Tzotzil, primarily in 1960, but also in 1963, 1968, and 1971. Zinacantec oral literature as ...
  • Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax: Sundries from Zinacantán 
    Laughlin, Robert M. (1980)
    This volume is divided into two sections. Part 1 contains the travels of two Mayan Indians from Zinacantán, Chiapas, Mexico, who accompanied the author to the United States in 1963 and again in 1967. The first trip was ...
  • Of Wonders Wild and New: Dreams from Zinacantán 
    Laughlin, Robert M. (1976)
    This collection of 260 dream texts from Zinacantán, Chiapas, Mexico, was recorded in Tzotzil, primarily during 1963, and subsequently translated by the author into English. Dreams are ascribed considerable importance by ...
  • Old World Paleolithic and the Development of a National Collection 
    Petraglia, Michael; Potts, Richard (2004)
  • Ossuary of San Francisco Church, Quito, Ecuador: Human Skeletal Biology 
    Ubelaker, Douglas H.; Ripley, Catherine E. (1999)
    As part of the Columbus quincentenary activities, the Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural del Ecuador (INPCE) and the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional (AECI) attempted to study and restore the Convento ...
  • Plains Indian Studies: A Collection of Essays in Honor of John C. Ewers and Waldo R. Wedel 
    Ubelaker, Douglas H.; Viola, Herman J. (1982)
    Much of our knowledge of the ethnology, material culture, and prehistory of the Plains of the United States can be linked with the careers and careful research of the Smithsonian&amp;apos;s John C. Ewers and Waldo R. Wedel. ...
  • Reconstruction of Demographic Profiles from Ossuary Skeletal Samples: A Case Study from the Tidewater Potomac 
    Ubelaker, Douglas H. (1974)
    The excavation and analysis of two Late Woodland ossuaries from the Juhle site (18CH89) in southern Maryland are described in detail. The report includes a discussion of archeological features of the ossuaries, but emphasizes ...
  • Sandpaintings of the Navaho Shootingway and The Walcott Collection 
    Wyman, Leland C. (1970)
    A brief account of the Navaho and their ceremonial system ("religion") and practice of ritual, with its sanctioning mythology, provides background for the discussion of the sandpaintings of the Shootingway chantway, its ...
  • Seneca Morphology and Dictionary 
    Chafe, Wallace L. (1967)
    This work is an extended description of the structure of words in the Seneca language. A description of the grammar of Seneca words has already been published in the International Journal of American Linguistics (Chafe, ...
  • Skeleltal Biology of Human Remains from La Tolita, Esmeraldas Province, Ecuador 
    Ubelaker, Douglas H. (1997)
    Although much of the archeological site of La Tolita has been destroyed by decades of looting, excavations begun in 1982 by the Banco Central of Quito, Ecuador, located undisturbed areas and recovered relatively large ...
  • Traditional Pottery Techniques of Pakistan: Field and Laboratory Studies 
    Rye, Owen S.; Evans, Clifford (1976)
    The first part of this work deals with detailed observations obtained during four field expeditions (1967-1971) in Pakistan, for pottery making of unglazed ware in 13 areas and glazed ware in 5 major centers.<br/>For each ...

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