Book

Minor ceremonies of the Crow Indians

American Museum Press21 (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