Ogalala Games
Author : Louis L. Meeker
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 22,76 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Oglala Indians
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Author : Louis L. Meeker
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 22,76 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Oglala Indians
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Author : Stewart Culin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 35,16 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803263550
Games figured prominently in the myths of North American Indian tribes, and also in their ceremonies for bringing rain and fertility and combating misfortune. In his classic study, originally published in 1907 as a report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Stewart Culin divided the games played by Indian men and women into two general types. Volume 1 of this Bison Books edition takes up games of chance, involving guessing and throwing dice. Culin was able to show that the games of North American tribes were remarkably similar in method and purpose. He found that games using dice of various materials—wood, cane, bone, animal teeth, fruit stones—existed among 130 tribes belonging to 30 linguistic groups. The games are described in detail in this volume, and so are the popular guessing games drawing on sticks and wooden disks and involving hidden objects. Volume 2 is just as absorbing in its elaboration of skills like archery and games like snow-snake, in which darts or javelins were hurled over snow or ice. Played throughout the continent north of Mexico were the hoop and pole game and its miniature, solitaire form called ring and pin, here illustrated. With equal authority Culin discusses ball games: racket, shinny, football, and hot ball. He includes accounts of "minor amusements": shuttlecock, tipcat, quoits, popgun, bean shooter, and cat's cradle. Originally published in 1907, Stewart Culin's comprehensive work reveals a side of American Indian culture still only rarely shown. An experienced observer, Culin was curator of ethnology at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and the author of books about games in other cultures.
Author : Stewart Culin
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Page : 946 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Social Science
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Author : Stewart Culin
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486231259
The most complete work ever prepared on the subject — based on museum collections, travel and ethnographic accounts, and author's own research. Covers over 200 tribes and everything from games of chance and dexterity to such minor amusements as shuttlecock and tipcat. Bureau of American Ethnology report worth a substantial sum in original edition. 1,112 figures.
Author : Stewart Culin
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780803263567
"Reprinted from the original 1907 edition published as the Twenty-fourth annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1902-1903, Smithsonian Institution"--T.p. verso.
Author : Louis L. Meeker
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release : 1975-07
Category : Oglala Indians
ISBN : 9780846640080
Author : Joseph Jacobs
Publisher :
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 14,80 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Electronic journals
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Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society.
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Page : 884 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Anthropology
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Author :
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Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,35 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Life insurance
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Author : University of Pennsylvania. University Museum
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Page : 430 pages
File Size : 10,81 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Archaeological museums and collections
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