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Chapter I: Introduction: 5

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_By A. L. Kroeber, Professor of Anthropology, University of
California_

PLAINS TRIBES:

TAKES-THE-PIPE, A CROW WARRIOR 17
_By Robert H. Lowie, Associate Professor of Anthropology,
University of California_

A CROW WOMAN’S TALE 35
_By Robert H. Lowie, Associate Professor of Anthropology,
University of California_

A TRIAL OF SHAMANS 41
_By Robert H. Lowie, Associate Professor of Anthropology,
University of California_

SMOKING-STAR, A BLACKFOOT SHAMAN 45
_By Clark Wissler, Curator of Anthropology, American Museum
of Natural History_

TRIBES OF THE MIDDLE WEST:

LITTLE-WOLF JOINS THE MEDICINE LODGE 63
_By Alanson Skinner, Assistant Curator, Public Museum,
Milwaukee_

THUNDER-CLOUD, A WINNEBAGO SHAMAN, RELATES AND PRAYS 75
_By Paul Radin, Late of the Department of Anthropology,
University of California_

HOW MESKWAKI CHILDREN SHOULD BE BROUGHT UP 81
_By Truman Michelson, Ethnologist, Bureau of American
Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution_

EASTERN TRIBES:

IN MONTAGNAIS COUNTRY 87
_By Frank G. Speck, Professor of Anthropology, University of
Pennsylvania_

HANGING-FLOWER, THE IROQUOIS 99
_By Alexander A. Goldenweiser, Lecturer in Anthropology, New
School of Social Research_

THE THUNDER POWER OF RUMBLING-WINGS 107
_By M. R. Harrington, Ethnologist, Museum of the American
Indian, Heye Foundation_

TOKULKI OF TULSA 127
_By John R. Swanton, Ethnologist, Bureau of American
Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution_

TRIBES OF THE SOUTH-WEST:

SLENDER-MAIDEN OF THE APACHE 147
_By P. E. Goddard, Curator of Ethnology, American Museum of
Natural History_

WHEN JOHN THE JEWELER WAS SICK 153
_By A. M. Stephen, Sometime Resident Among the Hopi and
Navaho_

WAIYAUTITSA OF ZUÑI, NEW MEXICO 157
_By Elsie Clews Parsons, Member of the Hopi Tribe_

ZUÑI PICTURES 175
_By Stewart Culin, Curator of Anthropology, Brooklyn
Institute Museum_

HAVASUPAI DAYS 179
_By Leslie Spier of the Department of Sociology, University
of Washington_

EARTH-TONGUE, A MOHAVE 189
_By A. L. Kroeber, Professor of Anthropology, University of
California_

MEXICAN TRIBES:

THE CHIEF SINGER OF THE TEPECANO 203
_By J. Alden Mason, Assistant Curator in Anthropology,
Field Museum of Natural History_

THE UNDERSTUDY OF TEZCATLIPOCA 237
_By Herbert Spinden, Lecturer in Anthropology, Harvard
University_

HOW HOLON CHAN BECAME THE TRUE MAN OF HIS PEOPLE 251
_By Sylvanus G. Morley, Associate, Carnegie Institution of
Washington_

THE TOLTEC ARCHITECT OF CHICHEN ITZA 265
_By Alfred M. Tozzer, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard
University, and Curator Middle American Archaeology,
Peabody Museum_

PACIFIC COAST TRIBES:

WIXI OF THE SHELLMOUND PEOPLE 273
_By N. C. Nelson, Associate Curator of North American
Archæology, American Museum of Natural History_

ALL IS TROUBLE ALONG THE KLAMATH 289
_By T. T. Waterman, Ethnologist, Museum of the American
Indian, Heye Foundation_

SAYACH’APIS, A NOOTKA TRADER 297
_By Edward Sapir, Head of Division of Anthropology,
Geological Survey of Canada_

NORTHERN ATHABASCAN TRIBES:

WINDIGO, A CHIPEWYAN STORY 325
_By Robert H. Lowie, Associate Professor of Anthropology,
University of California_

CRIES-FOR-SALMON, A TEN’A WOMAN 337
_By T. B. Reed and Elsie Clews Parsons. Mr. Reed is an
Alaskan (Ten’a) student in Hampton Institute_

ESKIMO:

AN ESKIMO WINTER 363
_By Franz Boas, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia
University_

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