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Indians of North America-social life and customs.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Buster Degraftenreid. Belle Kilgore, collector., 1936-1940

 File
Identifier: 5-4-9 32
Scope and Contents

Describes the few days Buster lived with the Indians.

Dates: 1936-1940

Custom - Arapahoe Indian Grief. Kenneth Fordyce, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-4-9 22
Scope and Contents

Traditions of showing grief for those who had died.

Dates: 1936-1940

Indian - colored arrows. Kenneth Fordyce, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-4-9 23
Scope and Contents

Describes how colored arrows are used to identify game on a hunt.

Dates: 1936-1940

The reason Indian scouts wore long hair. Frances Totty, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 5-4-9 19
Scope and Contents

Indians feel long hair is an indication of how brave a man is and believe that a man who wears short hair is a coward.

Dates: 1936-1940

Why the Indians' hair stays black. Muriel Haskell, collector., 1936-1940

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Identifier: 4-4-12 1
Scope and Contents

Describes the hair washing customs among the Taos Indians.

Dates: 1936-1940