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Klamath ethnographyBook 1930 • Spier, Leslie
Klamath • North America > Plains and Plateau
The first part of this monograph is a description of Klamath culture as Spier could reconstruct it from the accounts of the old people of the tribe. A great number of Klamath words are given throughout the descriptive part of the text. In the second ...Havasupai ethnographyBook 1928 • Spier, Leslie
Havasupai • North America > Southwest and Basin
This account of the Havasupai is based on field work undertaken in 1918, 1919 and 1921 by the author, a trained ethnologist. It is a comprehensive monograph covering all aspects of culture with a particularly strong treatment of material culture. In ...Yuman tribes of the Gila RiverBook 1933 • Spier, Leslie
Maricopa • North America > Southwest and Basin
Based on fieldwork, this volume supplies a general ethnographic account, including information on subsistence techniques, food preparation, diet, houses, clothing, industries, daily routine, concepts of time, the kinship system, warfare, names, relig...