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The Tanala, a hill tribe of MadagascarBook 1933 • Linton, Ralph
Tanala • Africa > Southern Africa
This work was planned as the first of a series on Madagascar field research, sponsored by the Field Museum as an extension of its interest in Malayan ethnology. Although the author was only two months among the Tanala themselves, he spent about one y...The Comanche Sun Dancearticle 1935 • Linton, Ralph
Comanche • North America > Plains and Plateau
This document is an account of the Sun Dance, last held in 1878, based essentially on second hand evidence, since only one informant had actually witnessed the dance and his memory was vague. The dance was held at irregular intervals from 1860 on, us...The Thunder Ceremony of the PawneeBook 1922 • Linton, Ralph
Pawnee • North America > Plains and Plateau
This is a summary article of the Pawnee Thunder Ceremony based on the field notes of George A. Dorsey. Linton begins the description with a summary of Pawnee culture as a background and then describes the ceremony, which is the opening ceremony of th...The sacrifice to the morning star by the Skidi PawneeBook 1922 • Linton, Ralph
Pawnee • North America > Plains and Plateau
This is a summary article, in a popular style, of the sacrifice to the morning star by the Skidi, the northernmost division of the Pawnee. The summary is based upon the field notes of George A. Dorsey and the extant literature....Purification of the sacred bundles, a ceremony of the PawneeBook 1923 • Linton, Ralph
Pawnee • North America > Plains and Plateau
This is a brief summary of the Pawnee Bundle Purification Ceremony. The description is based primarily on the field notes of George A. Dorsey. Linton was a noted American anthropologist....Annual ceremony of the Pawnee medicine manBook 1923 • Linton, Ralph
Pawnee • North America > Plains and Plateau
This is a summary account of the annual ceremony of the Pawnee medicine men, compiled from notes of G. A. Dorsey. It includes a long legend of the origin of the medicine societies....The material culture of the Marquesas Islandsarticle 1923 • Linton, Ralph
Marquesas • Oceania > Polynesia
This source by Ralph Linton, a professional anthropologist who accompanied Handy to the Marquesas on the Bayard Dominick Expedition, is primarily of a descriptive nature. A very thorough description is given of houses, canoes, artifacts and utensils,...Marquesan cultureessay 1939 • Linton, Ralph
Marquesas • Oceania > Polynesia
This is a descriptive summary of Marquesan culture by a well known professional anthropologist, similar to a standard ethnographic treatment but with emphasis on data significant to the psychological analysis which accompanies it in the original book...