Religious Customs of Modern Michigan Algonquians, 1955 1955

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Religious Customs of Modern Michigan Algonquians, 1955 1955

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The draft of an unpublished book, lacking chapter VI, Ottawa feasts. Attempts, by detailed analysis and description of present-day customs in historical perspective, to evaluate powwows, feasts, and camp meetings in Ottawa culture. 12 chapters give brief history, biographies, and locations; describe festivals and dances in detail; analyze native songs (scores); describe a Chippewa Methodist camp meeting and hymns, with analysis of hymn texts and tunes. Presents Ottawa "superstitions" (bear walking, medicines, herbs), 42 Ottawa myths (see Jane Willets, Ottawa material, Rec. 1), material on natural-history usage. Attempts to reconstruct function of ritual, with historical references.

1.0 Volume(s), Ca. 500 pages

American Philosophical Society

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