Book
Minor ceremonies of the Crow Indians
American Museum Press • 21 (5) • Published In 1924 • Pages: 323-365
By: Lowie, Robert Harry.
Abstract
The author gathered data on Crow ceremonial life during visits to the Crow of southeastern Montana from 1907 to 1916. This final article based on that fieldwork contains native accounts of a series of minor Crow ceremonies: the Horse dance, the Medicine Pipe (Village Indian Ritual and Crow Ritual), Cooked Meat singing, the Bear Song dance, the Chaste Women's dance, the Not-small Old Woman dance, the Greasy Grass dance, and the Badger dance.
- Subjects
- Organized ceremonial
- Sodalities
- Magical and mental therapy
- Mythology
- Revelation and divination
- Applied animal science
- Sacred objects and places
- Acquisition and relinquishment of property
- Ethnosociology
- Gift giving
- Food preparation
- Social control
- Division of labor by gender
- Kin relationships
- Magicians and diviners
- Acculturation and culture contact
- culture
- Crow
- HRAF PubDate
- 2014
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Plains and Plateau
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Eve Glassberg ; 1954
- Field Date
- 1907-1916
- Coverage Date
- 1830-1916
- Coverage Place
- northern Great Plains, United States
- Notes
- Robert H. Lowie
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 25005859
- LCSH
- Crow Indians
- Indian mythology--North America