Chippewa Customs
Title | Chippewa Customs PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Densmore |
Publisher | Minnesota Historical Society |
Total Pages | 309 |
Release | 2009-11-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0873516613 |
"Using information obtained between 1907 and 1925 from members of the Chippewa tribe, the Bureau of American Ethnology, and the United States National Museum, the book describes various Chippewa customs. Information, collected on six reservations in Minnesota and Wisconsin and the Manitou Rapids Reserve in Ontario, Canada, is provided concerning the tribe's name; totemic system; phonetics; dwellings; clothing; treatment of the face; hair care and arrangement; food; health measures; care, naming, government, pastimes, and playthings of children; puberty; courtship and marriage; death, burial, and mourning; significance of dreams; Midewiwin; stories and legends; music; dances; charms; games; the industrial year; chiefs; right of revenge; war customs; transportation; methods of measuring time, distance, and quantity; exchange of commodities within the tribe; payment of annuity; traders and trading posts; making and using fire; pipes; bows and arrows; snowshoes; making of pitch; torches; canoes; twine; fish nets; weaving mats, bags, bands, blankets of rabbit skin, and head ornament of moose hair; netting of belts; basketry; pottery; dyes; tanning; glue; musical instruments (drum, rattle, flute, clapper); articles made of stone, bone, and wood; applique work; memory devices; picture writing; decorative arts; and beadwork. Portraits, black and white illustrations, and reminiscences of the informants are provided throughout the book. (NQA)"--Microfiche cat records.
Chippewa Customs
Title | Chippewa Customs PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Densmore |
Publisher | Minnesota Historical Society Press |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0873511425 |
An authoritative source for the tribal history, customs, legends, traditions, art, music, economy, and leisure activities of the Ojibwe people.
Chippewa Customs
Title | Chippewa Customs PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Densmore |
Publisher | Minnesota Historical Society Press |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780873511421 |
An authoritative source for the tribal history, customs, legends, traditions, art, music, economy, and leisure activities of the Ojibwe people.
Chippewa Customs
Title | Chippewa Customs PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Densmore |
Publisher | Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | 310 |
Release | 2015-06-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781330035405 |
Excerpt from Chippewa Customs Chippewa Customs was written by Frances Densmore in 1929. This is a 306 page book, containing 102392 words and 154 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. 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.
Chippewa Customs (Classic Reprint)
Title | Chippewa Customs (Classic Reprint) PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Densmore |
Publisher | Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | 310 |
Release | 2017-09-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781528147033 |
Excerpt from Chippewa Customs The villages at Grand Portage and Grand Marais, on the north shore of Lake Superior, were visited, specimens and data were collected, and at the former place an interesting ceremony was witnessed.2 The following year a trip was made to a primitive group of Chippewa living on Vermilion Lake, and to the Leech Lake and White Earth Reservations in Minnesota. The study of Chippewa music for the Bureau of American Ethnology was begun in 1907 The material herewith presented was collected on the White Earth, Red Lake, Cass Lake, Leech Lake, and Mille Lac Reservations in Minnesota, the Lac Court Oreilles Reservation in Wisconsin, and the Manitou Rapids Reserve in Ontario, Canada, the work continuing until 1925. (fig. The writer gratefully acknowledges the faithfulness of her Chip pewa friends and especially the assistance of her principal inter preter, Mrs. Mary Warren English, which began in 1907 and con tinned during the work at White Earth. Assistance has also been received from members of the staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology and the United States National Museum, in their special fields of research. 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.
Chippewa Child Life and Its Cultural Background
Title | Chippewa Child Life and Its Cultural Background PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Inez Hilger |
Publisher | Minnesota Historical Society Press |
Total Pages | 276 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Ojibwa Indians |
ISBN | 9780873512718 |
"In the 1930s anthropologist Sister M. Inez Hilger traveled to nine reservations in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan to record traditional Chippewa (Ojibway) methods of raising children. Her intriguing study captures the essential details of Chippewa child life-and provides a comprehensive overview of a fascinating culture. A new introduction by Jean M. O'Brien, assistant professor of history and American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota, assesses Hilger's contributions in this book, which was first published in 1951."-- Back cover.
Chippewa Customs, by Frances Densmore. [Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 86.].
Title | Chippewa Customs, by Frances Densmore. [Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 86.]. PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 1927 |
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