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A note on Dominican basketry and its analoguesarticle 1948 • Taylor, Douglas MacRae & Moore, Harvey C.
Island Carib • Middle America and the Caribbean > Caribbean
This article deals with the materials, construction, design and uses of basketry among the Caribs in the island of Dominica. Over half the study is devoted to a comparative treatment of similar basketry among the modern non-Carib population of Domini...The peyote religion among the NavahoBook 1966 • Aberle, David F. (David Friend) et al.
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
This is an extremely thorough ethnographic source, concerned with the origins, development, and social functions of the peyote cult (Native American Church) among the Navajo. The author, who participated in the cult by eating peyote numerous times, a...