The Assiniboine
book chapter 1909 • Lowie, Robert Harry

Assiniboine • North America > Plains and Plateau
Lowie has divided this document into two major parts. Part 1 describes the ethnology of the Assiniboine from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, with a primary emphasis on histor...

A Few Assiniboine texts
article 1960 • Lowie, Robert Harry

Assiniboine • North America > Plains and Plateau
This is the posthumous publication of the anthropologist Robert Lowie's interlinear translations of 14 Assiniboine tales....

Chipewyan tales
Book 1912 • Lowie, Robert Harry

Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This document presents sample of Chipewyan tales collected by Robert H. Lowie probably in the early twentieth century. Several of the tales between pages 173-185 are fragmentary in nature beca...

Windigo, a Chipewyan story
essay 1925 • Lowie, Robert Harry

Chipewyans • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This is Lowie's retelling of a Chipewyan tale about the Windigo, a fearsome bush spirit. It is a tale about how a Métis summons the courage to defeat and kill a trader who won his wife in a wr...

Shoshonean tales
article 1926 • Lowie, Robert Harry

Ute • North America > Southwest and Basin
This document is a compilation of Southern Ute 'tales'. No distinction is made between mythology and legend. This document is part of a much longer article on tales of several Shoshonean peopl...

The Crow Indians
Book 1935 • Lowie, Robert Harry

Crow • North America > Plains and Plateau
This standard ethnological study of the Crow is based on the author's fieldwork over a twenty-five year period. Socio-military clubs and the more important ceremonial rites are described in de...

The Material culture of the Crow Indians
Book 1922 • Lowie, Robert Harry

Crow • North America > Plains and Plateau
This survey of Crow material culture contains relatively detailed descriptions of utensils, tools, weapons, clothing, and pipes, with references to similar forms and usages among neighboring t...

The Sun dance of the Crow Indians
Book 1921 • Lowie, Robert Harry

Crow • North America > Plains and Plateau
The Crow Sun Dance is distinct from the general Plains pattern in both purpose and in practice. It is essentially a prayer or quest for revenge initiated by a single individual, culminating in...

Societies of the Crow, Hidatsa and Mandan Indians
book chapter 1913 • Lowie, Robert Harry

Crow • North America > Plains and Plateau
This work provides detail on Crow societies. It is noted that Crow military societies provide for socializing and mutual support among members, and are unusual for lacking a military character...

The religion of the Crow Indians
Book 1922 • Lowie, Robert Harry

Crow • North America > Plains and Plateau
Crow religious beliefs and practices pervade most aspects of the culture. The quest for visions and dreams assumes paramount importance to the Crow because success in life is directly dependen...

Crow Indian art
Book 1922 • Lowie, Robert Harry

Crow • North America > Plains and Plateau
This is a study of Crow decorative art applied to utensils, dwellings, clothing and various other articles. Figurative art is briefly discussed. References to similar art forms found among oth...

Minor ceremonies of the Crow Indians
Book 1924 • Lowie, Robert Harry

Crow • North America > Plains and Plateau
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 s...

My Crow interpreter
essay 1964 • Lowie, Robert Harry

Crow • North America > Plains and Plateau
This article comes from a compilation of writings on the role of informants in ethnographic methodology, During research among the Southern Montana reservation Crow, the author cultivated a wa...

The Hidatsa sun dance
essay 1921 • Lowie, Robert Harry

Hidatsa • North America > Plains and Plateau
The author examines changes and continuities in the Sun Dance ceremony—last performed about 1880—by contrasting recollections from elderly Hidatsa with written eyewitness accounts. Also, compa...

Social life of the Hidatsa
essay 1924 • Lowie, Robert Harry

Hidatsa • North America > Plains and Plateau
This document outlines aspects of traditional Hidatsa social life, principally through examination of kin groups and relationships, kinship terminology, and marriage. Additional topics given b...

Mandan and Hidatsa women's societies
essay 1913 • Lowie, Robert Harry

Hidatsa • North America > Plains and Plateau
This historical investigation into organization of four age-based and three gender-based societies among the Mandan and Hidatsa, supplemented by informant accounts, contrasts the place and rol...

Notes on Shoshonean ethnography
Book 1924 • Lowie, Robert Harry

Northern Paiute • North America > Southwest and Basin
Lowie visited the Moapa and Shivwits Paiute (Southern Paiute), the Paviotso of Pyramid Lake, Fallon and Lovelock, Nevada, the Ute of Navaho Springs, Ignacio, Colorado and Whiterocks, Utah, and...

Notes on Hopi clans
Book 1929 • Lowie, Robert Harry

Hopi • North America > Southwest and Basin
This source presents a detailed study of the Hopi clan system based on the data collected by the author in the summer of 1915 at First Mesa on the Hopi Reservation (villages of Walpi and Sichu...

Hopi kinship
Book 1929 • Lowie, Robert Harry

Hopi • North America > Southwest and Basin
In 1914 W. H. R. Rivers presented a theory in his book ‘Kinship and Social Organization’ which stated in effect that clan exogamy and the classificatory system of terminology are functionally ...

The Bororo
Book 1946 • Lowie, Robert Harry

Bororo • South America > Eastern South America
This monograph is a general, succinct account of Bororo ethnography, with specific data on basic identification, subsistence patterns, houses and villages, dress and ornament, transportation, ...

The Eastern Timbira
Book 1946 • Nimuendaju, Curt & Lowie, Robert Harry

Canela • South America > Eastern South America
The study is based upon detailed historical research on the Ge, and specifically the Timbira peoples, and considerable field investigation among the Timbira tribes as detailed herewith: Kreye,...