"The Blood Speaks"--Maya Ritual Sacrifice Theses Author/Creator Melinda David Islas Description Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1990. Login or Register to create bookmarks.
Captain Death Strikes Again: Tuberculosis and the Stó:lõ 1871-1907 Theses Author/Creator MacKinley Darlington Description History Thesis (M.A.)--Univerity of Saskatchewan, 2010. Login or Register to create bookmarks.
Institutional Death and Ceremonial Healing Far From Home: The Carlisle Indian School Cemetery Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed Author/Creator Jacqueline Fear-Segal Museum Anthropology, vol. 33, no. 2, September 2010, pp. 157-171 Description Looks at the history of a unique Indian burial site and its reclamation as a place for ceremony, healing, and recovery. Login or Register to create bookmarks.
Interpreting Native American Art and Culture: Transformations and Changes Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed Author/Creator Mary B. Davis Art Documentation, vol. 9, no. 4, Winter, 1990, pp. 183-186 Description Discusses Northwest Coast art and wampum, traditional sacred shell beads of the Northeast. Login or Register to create bookmarks.
Naatsilanéi and Ko'ehdan: A Semiotic Analysis of Two Alaska Native Myths Theses Author/Creator Phyllis A. Fast Description Alaska Native Literary Forms Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alaska Anchorage, 1990. Login or Register to create bookmarks.
Objects of Purpose - Objects of Prayer: Peyote Boxes of the Native American Church Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed Author/Creator Daniel C. Swan Museum Anthropology Review, vol. 4, no. 2, 2010, pp. 156-189 Description Discusses boxes used to store and transport objects and items used in ceremonies of the Peyote religion. Includes images of examples. Login or Register to create bookmarks.
Ritual Architecture in Prehistoric Complex Hunter-Gatherer Communities: A Potential Example From Keatley Creek, on the Canadian Plateau Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed Author/Creator Jesse Morin American Antiquity, vol. 75, no. 3, July 2010, pp. 599-626 Description Promotes the study of housepit structures to begin to interpret the bases and origins of social inequality. Login or Register to create bookmarks.
Structural Patterning in Kwakiutl Art and Ritual Articles » General Author/Creator Abraham Rosman Paula G. Rubel Man, vol. 25, no. 4, December 1990, pp. 620-639 Description Shows that the stylistic and representational contrasts in art correspond with the division of the Kwakiutl year based on notions of secular and sacred. Login or Register to create bookmarks.
Tsimshian Peoples: Southern Tsimshian, Coast Tsimshian, Nishga, and Gitksan Alternate Title Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 7: Northwest Coast E-Books Author/Creator Marjorie M. Halpin Margaret Seguin Description Chapter in book: Handbook of North American Indians: Northwest Coast, Volume 7> edited by William C. Sturtevant Login or Register to create bookmarks.