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Vancouver Island Indiansessay 1922 • Sapir, Edward
Nuu-chah-nulth • North America > Northwest Coast and California
This brief article is a summary of Nootka religion, based mainly on material in Sapir's field notes, with some additions from the work of Boas. In the course of the article, he discusses supernatural beings, prayer, acquisition of power and secret ri...A Girl's puberty ceremony among the Nootka Indiansarticle 1913 • Sapir, Edward
Nuu-chah-nulth • North America > Northwest Coast and California
This source is the description of a girl's puberty ceremony and accompanying potlatch which Sapir observed in October 1910 at Alberni, British Columbia. Most of the article is taken up with a running account of the events during the potlatch, while t...Kinship terms of the Kootenay Indiansarticle 1918 • Sapir, Edward
Kutenai • North America > Plains and Plateau
This is a short article on kinship terms the author collected from a Kutenai chief who visited Ottawa, Canada in 1916....Native accounts of Nootka ethnographybook chapter 1955 • Sapir, Edward & Swadesh, Morris
Nuu-chah-nulth • North America > Northwest Coast and California
Materials in this volume consist of Nootka texts and English translations. For the purpose of this file, only a selected number of the translations have been chosen for processing. These include narratives on the annual cycle of economic and social a...