Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring, 1945, pp. 75-113
Description
Looks at different characteristics of contrary or clown behavior in the Bluejay Character, of the east central Plateau, the Heyoka of the Dakota and Ponca, the Buffoons of the Plains Cree, Ojibwa and Assiniboin, the dog designation in the Mandan, Hidatsa, Blackfoot, Arapaho and Atsina, and the fire ritualism presented in the Hot Dances of the Hidats, Arikara, and Iowa.