TABLE OF CONTENTS
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| [Preface] | 1 |
| [Introduction] | 5 |
| 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 | |
| [Appendix] | 381 |
| [Notes on the Various Tribes] | |
| [Illustrator’s Notes] | |