A note on star-lore among the Navajos
book chapter 1908 Tozzer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marston)

NavajoNorth America > Southwest and Basin
This is a short but extremely interesting account of the symbolism of perforations on a gourd rattle prepared during the Night Chant. On the basis of informants declaring that these represented constellations, the author compared them with scientific...

Notes on religious ceremonials of the Navaho
book chapter 1909 Tozzer, Alfred M. (Alfred Marston)

NavajoNorth America > Southwest and Basin
This article, by the well-known archaeologist, Alfred M. Tozzer, is a brief survey of some of the main aspects of Navajo ceremonialism. Tozzer points out the influence of early Pueblo religion on Navajo ritual, compares it with current Pueblo practic...

Kazak social structure
Book 1938 Hudson, Alfred E. (Alfred Emmons)

KazakhAsia > Central Asia
Hudson's 'Kazak Social Structure' is a well-documented, ethnological survey (based on primary and secondary source material) of Kazak social institutions. Hudson outlines the nature of the Kazak [n]uru[/n], the basic unit of all social groups, based ...

Iban Sea Dayak fabrics and their patterns
book chapter 1936 Haddon, Alfred C. (Alfred Cort) & Start, Laura E.

IbanAsia > Southeast Asia
This is a catalog of Iban fabrics in the Cambridge Museum, although items from the British Museum were also studied. The majority of the material involved was collected by a missionary, Charles Hose. Apart from the individual objects described, secti...

Iran
article 1954 Michaelis, Alfred

IranMiddle East > Middle East
The author, editor of Middle East Economist, gives a brief account of the contemporary economic situation in Iran in terms of agricultural development, industrial development, and the balance of trade and payments....

Ethnology of Easter Island
Book 1940 Métraux, Alfred

Rapa NuiOceania > Polynesia
Compiled by a member of a 1934-35 Franco-Belgian expedition, this monograph presents both original fieldwork and data from existing sources. Themes include the history, geography, material culture, social life, religion, art, warfare, tales, legends,...

Easter Island
Book 1945 Métraux, Alfred

Rapa NuiOceania > Polynesia
This article on the history of Easter Island offers a critique of various theories about the stonework, statues and the design-covered tablets interpreted as hieroglyphic script. Incorporating original observations, the author asserts that such trait...

The Carolines Island Yap or Guap, according to the reports of Alfred Tetens and Johann Kubary
article 1873 Tetens, Alfred & Kubary, J. S. (Jan Stanislaw)

YapeseOceania > Micronesia
Dr. E. Gräffe prepared this article from reports by Tetens and Kubary. Also included is a short grammar of the Yap language and a vocabulary prepared by J.T. Blohm, an agent for a German trading firm. (Approximately one-third of the article deals wit...

Notes on the Jivaros and Canelos Indians
1880 Simson, Alfred

JivaroSouth America > Amazon and Orinoco
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The Jivaro
1948 Métraux, Alfred

JivaroSouth America > Amazon and Orinoco
...

Contribution to Andean folklore
article 1934 Métraux, Alfred & Reynolds, Priscilla

AymaraSouth America > Central Andes
This monograph is on religious practices and beliefs of the Aymara in the province of Carangas, Bolivia. After four centuries of European-Indian contacts the Aymara showed Christian influence, but, according to Métraux, still retained many native rel...

Contribution to the ethnography and linguistics of the Uro Indians of Ancoaqui (Bolivia)
article 1935 Métraux, Alfred & Reynolds, Priscilla

Uru-ChipayaSouth America > Central Andes
This source presents a succinct account of the material culture, social organization and religion of an Uru community of Ancoaqui (Iru-Itu) on the banks of the Desaguadero River, some twenty-five kilometers south of the Bolivian port of Guaqui. The a...

The Uru-Chipaya Indians of Carangas
article 1935 Métraux, Alfred & Reynolds, Priscilla

Uru-ChipayaSouth America > Central Andes
This is a basic source on the ethnography and language of the Chipaya segment of the Uru-Chipaya ethnolinguistic group of Atahuallpa (formerly Carangas) province, Oruro department. The monograph focuses upon religion, material culture (including the ...

Ethnography of the Chaco
essay 1946 Métraux, Alfred

AbipónSouth America > Southern South America
This this document, the Handbook of South American Indians, is a brief summary of the history of the Abipon, their relations with the Spanish and aboriginal groups, and of missionary activity among them. The author is a well-known French-Argentinian ...

Myths and tales of the Matako Indians (the Gran Chaco, Argentina)
Book 1939 Métraux, Alfred

MatacoSouth America > Southern South America
Métraux took down these tales and myths during an interval in his field trip to study the Toba and Pilaga. His interviews were short and casual, and mainly limited to two informants. He had frequent opportunities to ask questions about matters touche...

Report on the ethnography of the Mataco Indians of the Argentine Gran Chaco
article 1944 Métraux, Alfred

MatacoSouth America > Southern South America
Métraux visited the Mataco in 1939 with the intention of doing a full-scale study, but was prevented by sickness from doing so. This article is a publication of some of his field notes from this trip. Data are included on birth and infancy, abortion ...

Suicide among the Matako of the Gran Chaco
article 1943 Métraux, Alfred

MatacoSouth America > Southern South America
This article deals with the high rate of suicide among the Matako Indians in the missions. After giving ten case histories the author discusses the motives involved, the relation of suicide attempts to personality traits and to the existing accultura...

The Guarani
essay 1948 Métraux, Alfred

GuaraníSouth America > Eastern South America
This article is a summary of Guarani ethnography from the 16th century to the early twentieth century, as obtained mostly from written historical documents. In the opening pages of the article Métraux presents detailed information on Guarani tribal i...

The Botocudo
essay 1946 Métraux, Alfred

BotocudoSouth America > Eastern South America
This encyclopedic work covers what little was known about the Botocudo....

The material culture of the Tupi-Guarani tribes
book chapter 1928 Métraux, Alfred

TupinambaSouth America > Eastern South America
This book is an excellent source on Tupinamba material culture. Métraux bases his work on material gathered from existing sources and on data obtained by personally examining objects of Tupinamba origin found in various European museums. The book als...

Historical migrations of the Tupi Guarani
book chapter 1927 Métraux, Alfred & Coughlin, Margaret

TupinambaSouth America > Eastern South America
This document consists of a detailed analysis of the migratory movements of the various Tupí-Guaraní tribes from the time of their first contacts with Europeans in the sixteenth century to the early twentieth century. As such, it deals with the mirat...

The Tupinamba
book chapter 1948 Métraux, Alfred

TupinambaSouth America > Eastern South America
This is a secondary source summarizing Tupinamba culture. All of the sources which Métraux uses have been processed for the files. Several of the illustrations referred to in this text have been reproduced. No fieldwork was involved in the preparatio...

Affiliations through work in Marbial, Haiti
article 1952 Métraux, Alfred

HaitiansMiddle America and the Caribbean > Caribbean
This paper discusses the work relationships deriving from agriculture as one aspect of interpersonal relationships among the people of Marbial in southern Haiti. It shows that the basic economic unit in Marbial is the household consisting of a man, h...

Making a living in the Marbial Valley, Haiti
Book 1951 Métraux, Alfred et al.

HaitiansMiddle America and the Caribbean > Caribbean
This document deals with the economic life of Haitian peasants in Marbial province as of the 1951. It shows that Haitian economy depends almost entirely upon the hard toil of rural people. When this report was compiled, rural communities lacked adequ...

Zulu medicine and medicine-men
Book 1966 Bryant, A. T. (Alfred T.)

ZuluAfrica > Southern Africa
This is a Zulu materia medica, with brief descriptions of medicine-men and curing as well. The majority of the text is a listing of 240 Zulu medicinal plants, their botanical identification and a discussion of how and for what they are used. Two valu...