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  • Human Remains from La Florida, Quito, Ecuador 
    Ubelaker, Douglas H. (2000)
    Excavations from 1984 to 1988 at the site of La Florida in suburban Quito, Ecuador, discovered six very deep shaft tombs dating to about AD 340 (Chaupicruz phase of the Regional Development period).<br/>Analysis of the ...
  • Human remains from Voegtly Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 
    Ubelaker, Douglas H.; Jones, Erica B. (2003)
    In 1987, stimulated by planned highway construction, an archeological survey located the cemetery associated with Voegtly Church and Parsonage, which was dated to between 1833 and 1861. An intensive excavation in 1987 ...
  • Identification of pathological conditions in human skeletal remains 
    Ortner, Donald J.; Putschar, Walter G. J. (1985)
  • Land Tenure of the Rainy Lake Chippewa at the Beginning of the 19th Century 
    Hickerson, Harold (1967)
    The land tenure of northeastern Algonkians has been the subject of discussion and controversy over the past 50 years, since Speck first began describing family hunting territory systems among Algonquin and Chippewa of the ...
  • Lindenmeier, 1934-1974: Concluding Report on Investigations 
    Wilmsen, Edwin N.; Roberts, Frank H. H., Jr. (1978)
    The excavation and analysis of Paleo-Indian artifacts from the Lindenmeier site in northern Colorado are described in detail. The site was excavated from 1934 to 1940 by Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr.; the history of these ...
  • 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. ...

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