Contributions to the Ethnology of the Kwakiutl / / Franz Boas.
Translated Kwakiutl texts dealing with dreams and information relating to the social organization of the tribe.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1925] ©1925 |
| Year of Publication: | 1925 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (358 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Dreams (Nos. 1–68)
- Rank, Property and Inheritance
- Counter and Tally Keeper
- The Assembler
- Succession
- A Family History
- The Acquisition of Names
- 1. The name of the newborn child
- 2. The name of the ten moons old child
- 3. The name of the young man
- 4. Painting with song
- 5. Spreading out
- 6. (An accident)
- 7. Giving the winter dance to his own tribe
- 8. Giving away to his own tribe
- 9. The giving away of property to the tribes
- 10. Marriage
- 11. The purchase of a copper
- 12. Continuation of the marriage ceremonies
- 13. Maturity of the chief’s sister
- 14. Building of a house