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Research correspondence and typescript excerpts regarding general Indian culture and customs. The correspondents include E. S. Sutton, Alice Marriott, J. A. Falch, and others, regarding:
Description:  Research correspondence and typescript excerpts regarding general Indian culture and customs. The correspondents include E. S. Sutton, Alice Marriott, J. A. Falch, and others, regarding:
a. Indian smoking and peyote cults.
b. Indian birch bark canoes and log canoes.
c. deer hunting.
d. snowshoes.
e. Indian artifacts.
f. an Indian toy, the “bull-roarer.”
g. the religious belief that the turtle is the supporter of the earth.
h. the wild rose as food and medicine.
i. what the whites were called by the different tribes.
j. the use of the cedar tree.
k. the belief in the crow and the raven.
l. trading among the tribes.
m. Indian society, and the lack of crimes and murders.
n. the significance of the eagle plume.
o. Indian music.
p. Indian beadwork.
q. Indian etiquette.
r. the thunderbird symbol.
s. the general attitudes and character of the Indian.
t. women’s buffalo call.
Collection:  Campbell, Walter Stanley (1877-1957)
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Document Location:  Box 117, Folder 4


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