The year the stars fell : Lakota winter counts at the Smithsonian / edited by Candace S. Greene and Russell Thornton.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Greene, Candace S.

Thornton, Russell, 1942-

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)

National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dakota astronomy.

Dakota calendar.

Dakota art.

Picture-writing--Great Plains.

Picture-writing.

Winter--Great Plains--Folklore.

Winter.

Great Plains.

Genre:

Folklore.

Physical Description:

xii, 347 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington D.C. : Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History : Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian ; Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2007]

Contents:

Preface / by Candace S. Greene

Preface / by Russell Thornton

Waniyetu wówapi: an introduction to the Lakota winter count tradition / Christina E. Burke

Winter counts in the Smithsonian / Christina E. Burke

The Rosebud winter count: a recent discovery / Russell Thornton

Winter by winter / Christina E. Burke and Russell Thornton, assisted by Dakota Goodhouse

Calendars from other Plains tribes / Candace S. Greene

Afterword: Tasunko ota win waniyetu wówapi (Her Many Horses winter count) / Emil Her Many Horses.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-329) and index.

ISBN:

9780803222113

0803222114

OCLC:

70839696

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