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The social life of the Blackfoot IndiansBook 1911 • Wissler, Clark
Blackfoot • North America > Plains and Plateau
This monograph, written as an integral part of an ethnographic survey in the Missouri-Saskatchewan area, presents a detailed description of the societal divisions and social relationships of t...Ceremonial bundles of the Blackfoot IndiansBook 1912 • Wissler, Clark
Blackfoot • North America > Plains and Plateau
This monograph, based upon data collected by Wissler, augmented by interviews and narrative texts recorded by his native field assistant and interpreter, is an extremely detailed description o...Material culture of the Blackfoot IndiansBook 1910 • Wissler, Clark
Blackfoot • North America > Plains and Plateau
This monograph presents a descriptive survey of the material culture of the Blackfoot, comparing the Peigan, Blood and Northern Blackfoot with each other and with the neighboring Prairie, Plai...Societies and dance associations of the Blackfoot IndiansBook 1913 • Wissler, Clark
Blackfoot • North America > Plains and Plateau
This monograph written by Wissler on the basis of his own field notes and information supplied by D.C. Duvall and James Eagle-child, is a descriptive study of the age-graded men's societies, w...The Sun Dance of the Blackfoot IndiansBook 1918 • Wissler, Clark
Blackfoot • North America > Plains and Plateau
This is a detailed account of the Piegan Sun Dance that the author saw performed twice during his stay among the Blackfoot from 1902 to about 1911. Wissler's exact observations on this ceremon...Mythology of the Blackfoot IndiansBook 1908 • Wissler, Clark & Duvall, D. C.
Blackfoot • North America > Plains and Plateau
This monograph presents Blackfoot narratives 'in which the tone of the mythical age predominate(s).' A good deal of notation on the regional distribution of the tales accompanies the text....