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Hopi hunting and Hunting fritualBook 1970 • Beaglehole, Ernest
Hopi • North America > Southwest and Basin
This source is a detailed study of hunting practices and associated rituals among the Hopi of today and in the traditional culture of the past. Although the main emphasis in the source is on h...Tonga colour-visionarticle 1939 • Beaglehole, Ernest
Tongans • Oceania > Polynesia
This source contains data collected by the Beagleholes concerning red-green color blindness and color terms among the Tongans. The authors present the results of the Ishihara color blindness t...Psychic stress in a Tongan villagearticle 1940 • Beaglehole, Ernest
Tongans • Oceania > Polynesia
This source presents case material, description and analysis, on the dreams of ten Tongans in order to show the 'value of the study of psychic stress in a primitive community' (p. 51). Nine of...Notes on Hopi economic lifeBook 1937 • Beaglehole, Ernest & Beaglehole, Pearl
Hopi • North America > Southwest and Basin
This source is a general study of Hopi economic life based on the study of two Second Mesa villages -- Mishongnovi and Shipaulovi. The field work was done by the author in the summers of 1932 ...Hopi of the second mesaBook 1935 • Beaglehole, Ernest & Beaglehole, Pearl
Hopi • North America > Southwest and Basin
The Beagleholes have presented in this document a concise ethnographic sketch of Hopi ethnography as observed in the second mesa pueblos of Mishongnovi and Shipaulovi during the summer of 1934...Pangai, village in TongaBook 1941 • Beaglehole, Ernest & Beaglehole, Pearl
Tongans • Oceania > Polynesia
During the summer of 1938-1939 -- in the South Temperate Zone summer begins on December 21 -- the author and his wife visited the Tonga Islands for a two months' period, of which seven weeks w...