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Makah marriage patterns and population stabilityarticle 1962 • Gunther, Erna
Nuu-chah-nulth • North America > Northwest Coast and California
This paper presents a study of the changing patterns of marriage among the Makah Indians over a period of one hundred years (1860-1960), partly as a result of European-Indian contacts, and partly as inherent socio-cultural changes evolving from withi...Makahessay 1990 • Renker, Ann M. & Gunther, Erna
Nuu-chah-nulth • North America > Northwest Coast and California
The Makah are the people of the area around Cape Flattery at the northwestern tip of the Olympic Peninsula in the state of Washington. This paper, based on secondary source material, describes their traditional culture including data on villages, env...