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

Blackfoot • North 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 literature on the subject, and on museum collections, Ewe...

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

Blackfoot • North 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' vow to undergo this ordeal at a future public ceremony. Some...

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

Crow • North 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 Shortly after his death, this portion of his unpublished manuscript on Crow culture was adapted as part of a study of museum collections and archival mat...

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

Crow • North 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 Shortly after his death, this portion of his unpublished manuscript on Crow culture was compiled and edited by a researcher who added the bracketed mater...

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

Crow • North 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 sketches of other contemporary Crow leaders of note. Valuable d...