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Oklahoma Delaware ceremonies, feasts and dancesarticle 1937 • Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith)
Delaware • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This study is the result of some eight years' work among the Oklahoma Delaware and the Munsee residing in Ontario. Using the many historical documents relating to Delaware ceremonies in the past, the author tries to relate the ceremonies of today to ...Notes on the material culture of the Huronarticle 1911 • Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith)
Huron/Wendat • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This article catalogues a range of material culture, most notably a chief's headdress, men’s and women's clothing, snowshoes, toboggans, sleds, dolls, utensils, and weapons....Naskapi, the savage hunters of the Labrador peninsulaBook 1935 • Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith)
Innu • North America > Arctic and Subarctic
This document is a description of the culture of the Naskapi, one of the main divisions of the Montagnais, who inhabit the northern, eastern and southeastern portions of the Labrador Peninsula. The main concentration is upon Naskapi religion which is...Micmac hunting territories in Nova Scotia and Newfoundlandessay 1922 • Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith)
Mi'kmaq • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This source, written by a professional ethnologist, describes in great detail the hunting territory system of the Micmac. Long lists are given of the individuals who occupy different territories, and these territories are mapped out in detail. Inform...A study of the Delaware Indian Big House CeremonyBook 1931 • Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith) et al.
Delaware • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This source presents an intensive study of the Big House Ceremony, one of the Paramount ceremonies of the Delaware Indians for the fulfillment of obligations to the host of spiritual beings comprising their cosmography. The author, a noted ethnologis...Cherokee dance and dramaBook 1983 • Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith) et al.
Cherokee • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This document, a second edition of a work originally published in 1951, describes in detail the surviving forms of dance and ritual as practiced among the Big Cove Cherokee at the Qualla Indian Reservation in North Carolina during the 1930s and 1940s...