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The Beaver dance and adoption ceremony of the Crow Indians
Lifeways of intermontane and plains Montana Indians • (1) • Published In 1979 • Pages: 43-56
By: Big Man, Max, Donaldson, Jessie Louise, Heidenreich, C. Adrian.
Abstract
This article is a thorough, detailed account of the Beaver Dance and related ceremonies observed by the author, a Crow chief, in 1926.
- Subjects
- Organized ceremonial
- Friendships
- Games
- Community heads
- Community structure
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Dance
- Music
- Spectacles
- Revelation and divination
- Sacred objects and places
- Magical and mental therapy
- Acculturation and culture contact
- culture
- Crow
- HRAF PubDate
- 2014
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Plains and Plateau
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Types
- Indigenous Person
- Chief
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Teferi A. Adem; 2012
- Field Date
- 1926-1927
- Coverage Date
- 1884-1926
- Coverage Place
- south-central Montana, United States
- Notes
- Max Big Man ; with an Introduction by Jesse Schultz Graham and Notes by C. Adrian Heidenreich
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSH
- Crow Indians