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]