| 1 | Creator: | Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch | Requires cookie* |
| Title: | Religious Customs of Modern Michigan Algonquians, 1955 | ||
| Dates: | 1955 | ||
| Abstract: | The draft of an unpublished book, lacking chapter VI, Ottawa feasts.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 Attempts to reconstruct function of ritual, with historical references. | ||
| Call #: | Mss.497.3.K965a | ||
| Extent: | 1.0 Volume(s) | ||
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| Subjects: | Algonquian Indians | Dance--Anthropological aspects--United States | Diagrams. | Eastern Woodlands Indians | Ettawageshik, Jane Willets, 1915-1996 | Indian dance--Michigan | Indians of North America--Michigan | Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch | Maps. | Ojibwa Indians | Ojibwa dance | Ottawa Indians | Photographs--Color | Sketches. |