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Camp, clan, and kin among the Cow Creek Seminole of FloridaBook 1941 • Spoehr, Alexander
Seminole • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This source is a brief sketch of the social organization of the Cow Creek Seminole band as it existed at the time of the author's field study in 1939. The main topics discussed in this work are the organization of the camp, the clan, kinship relation...Kinship system of the SeminoleBook 1942 • Spoehr, Alexander
Seminole • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This paper, based on five months of field work during the autumn of 1938 and the summer of 1939, is an attempt to reconstruct Oklahoma Seminole kinship as it existed during the days of the Seminole Nation before the allotment of Indian lands (1903), ...'Friends' among the Seminolearticle 1941 • Spoehr, Alexander
Seminole • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This is a brief one-page discussion of Seminole friendship....Oklahoma Seminole townsarticle 1941 • Spoehr, Alexander
Seminole • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This is a discussion of Seminole towns in Seminole County, Oklahoma. It focusses on town social and political organization, and economic and religious activities, prior to the General Allotment Act....MajuroBook 1949 • Spoehr, Alexander
Marshallese • Oceania > Micronesia
The author, while on active duty with the Navy during World War II, spent six months in the Marshall Islands. The nature of his duty allowed considerable mobility so that he became thoroughly versed in the physical characteristics of the Marshall ato...Notes on Skidi Pawnee societyBook 1940 • Dorsey, George Amos et al.
Pawnee • North America > Plains and Plateau
This monograph was compiled by Alexander Spoehr from field notes left unpublished at the death of the authors. Dorsey was an ethnologist and Murie was a Pawnee. The monograph deals with community organization, kinship and status, the life cycle, and ...