Indians of the Urban Northwest / / ed. by Marían W. Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Codere, Helen,; Collins, June M.,; Gunther, Erna,; Herzog, George,; King, Arden R.,; Leacock, Eleanor B.,; Leadbeater, Dorothy,; Randall, Betty Uchite\x27le,; Rivera, Trinita,; Schriuer, Joanne,; Smith, Marian W.,; Swadesh, Morris,; Wingert, Paul S.,
• HerausgeberIn: Smith, Marían W.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1949]; ©1949
• Year of Publication: 1949
• Language: English
• Series: Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology ; 36
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (382 p.)

A collection of papers on the Coast Salish Native Americans of western Washington and southwestern British Columbia, which consists of special studies or blocks of data leading toward a deeper knowledge of the Salish and Pacific Northwest. Topics include diet, the Shaker religion in the Northwest, C...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• Illustrations: Plates, Map and Figures
• Tables
• The Indians and Modern Society
• Diet of a Food-Gathering People, with Chemical Analysis of Salmon and Saskatoons
• The Shaker Religion Of The Northwest
• Coast Salish Painting
• Salish Music
• Salish Coiled Baskets
• Archaeology of the San Juan Islands; A Preliminary Report on the Cattle Point Site
• Distribution of the Chemakum Language
• The Linguistic Approach to Salish Prehistory
• The Harrison Lake Physical Type
• The Seabird Community
• Harrison Indian Childhood
• The Cinderella Theme in Northwest Coast Folklore
• John Fornsby: The Personal Document of a Coast Salish Indian
• Glossary of Tribal Names
• Bibliography
• Index