Contributions to the Ethnology of the Kwakiutl / Franz Boas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boas, Franz, author.

Series:

Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kwakiutl Indians.

Kwakiutl language--Texts.

Kwakiutl language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1925]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Translated Kwakiutl texts dealing with dreams and information relating to the social organization of the tribe.

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231880299

0231880294

OCLC:

1100429031