Blackfoot Indian pipes and pipemaking
Book 1963 Ewers, John C. (John Canfield)

BlackfootNorth America > Plains and Plateau
This short monograph provides a functional analysis of Blackfoot pipes, along with the materials and techniques used in their manufacture. Based on first-hand observation, a review of previous...

Self-torture in the Blood Indian Sun Dance
article 1948 Ewers, John C. (John Canfield)

BlackfootNorth America > Plains and Plateau
This article contains two first hand accounts of Blackfoot warrior self-torture. There is discussion of the combat circumstances which (generally) appear to have given rise to the warriors' vo...

Crow Indian beadwork
Book 1959 Wildschut, William & Ewers, John C. (John Canfield)

CrowNorth America > Plains and Plateau
The principal author, a businessman, collected extensively among the Crow between 1918 and 1927. Shortly after his death, this portion of his unpublished manuscript on Crow culture was adapted...

Crow Indian medicine bundles
Book 1960 Wildschut, William & Ewers, John C. (John Canfield)

CrowNorth America > Plains and Plateau
The principal author, a businessman, collected extensively among the Crow between 1918 and 1927. Shortly after his death, this portion of his unpublished manuscript on Crow culture was compile...

Five Indian tribes of the upper Missouri
book chapter 1961 Denig, Edwin Thompson & Ewers, John C. (John Canfield)

CrowNorth America > Plains and Plateau
This source is an early account of the Crow. The general ethnographic sketch is accompanied by a fairly lengthy biography of Chief Rotten Belly who died in 1834, and several biographical sketc...