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[Illustration: The Pool Apache] The Pool Apache
From Copyright Photograph 1906 by E.S. Curtis
The North American Indian
Being A Series Of Volumes Picturing And Describing
The Indians Of The United States And Alaska
Written, Illustrated, And Published By Edward S. Curtis
Edited By Frederick Webb Hodge
Foreword By Theodore Roosevelt
Field Research Conducted Under The Patronage Of J. Pierpont Morgan
In Twenty Volumes This, The First Volume, Published In The Year Nineteen
Hundred And Seven
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Copyright 1907, by Edward S. Curtis
Landmarks in Anthropology , a series of reprints in cultural
anthropology
General Editor: Weston La Barre
First reprinting 1970, Johnson Reprint Corporation
CONTENTS
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME ONE
THE APACHE
HISTORICAL SKETCH
HOMELAND AND LIFE
MYTHOLOGY CREATION MYTH
MEDICINE AND MEDICINE MEN
THE MESSIAH CRAZE
PUBERTY RITE
DANCE OF THE GODS
THE JICARILLAS
HOME AND GENERAL CUSTOMS
MYTHOLOGY CREATION MYTH
MIRACLE PERFORMERS
ORIGIN OF FIRE
THE NAVAHO
HOME LIFE, ARTS, AND BELIEFS
HISTORY
MYTHOLOGY CREATION MYTH
MIRACLE PERFORMERS
LEGEND OF THE HAPPINESS CHANT
LEGEND OF THE NIGHT CHANT
CEREMONIES THE NIGHT CHANT
MATURITY CEREMONY
MARRIAGE
APPENDIX
TRIBAL SUMMARY THE APACHE
THE JICARILLAS
THE NAVAHO
SOUTHERN ATHAPASCAN COMPARATIVE VOCABULARY
INDEX
ALPHABET USED IN RECORDING INDIAN TERMS
[The consonants are as in English, except when otherwise noted]
a as in father
a as in cat
â as aw in awl
ai as in aisle
e as ey in they
e as in net
i as in machine
i as in sit
o as in old
o as in not
ô as ow in how
oi as in oil
u as in ruin
u as in nut
ü as in German hütte
u as in push
h always aspirated
q as qu in quick
th as in thaw
w as in wild
y as in year
ch as in church
sh as in shall, sash
n nasal, as in French dans
zh as z in azure
' a pause
ILLUSTRATIONS
The Pool Apache
Nayé{~COMBINING BREVE~}nezgani Navaho
Illustration: Theodore Roosevelt
White River Apache
By The Sycamore Apache
The Fire Drill Apache
A Noonday Halt Navaho
Apache Camp
Typical Apache
Ténokai Apache
At The Ford Apache
The Bathing Pool Apache
Alchisé Apache
Mescal Hills Apache
Primitive Apache Home
Cutting Mescal Apache
Mescal Apache
Filling the Pit Apache
The Covered Pit Apache
Apache Still Life
Among the Oaks Apache
Mescal Camp Apache
Sacred Buckskin Apache
Apache Girl
The Ford Apache
Apache Medicine man
Maternity Belt Apache
Medicine Cap and Fetish Apache
Dan Lan Apache
Apache Village
Sand Mosaic Apache
Apache Gaun
Apache Maiden
Lone Tree Lodge Jicarilla
A Jicarilla
A Jicarilla Feast March
Jicarillas
Jeditoh Navaho
Lake Lajara Navaho
Into the Desert Navaho
Nature's Mirror Navaho
Canon Hogan Navaho
A Drink in the Desert Navaho
Under the Cottonwoods Navaho
Cornfields in Canon Del Muerto Navaho
The Blanket Maker Navaho
Piké{~COMBINING BREVE~}hodiklad Navaho
Hástin Yázhe Navaho
Navaho Hogan
Navaho Still Life
Navaho Medicine man
Through the Canon Navaho
Evening in the Desert Navaho
Hasché{~COMBINING BREVE~}lti Navaho
Haschógan Navaho
Antelope Ruin Canon del Muerto
Nayé{~COMBINING BREVE~}nezgani Navaho
Tobadzischí{~COMBINING BREVE~}ni Navaho
Hasché{~COMBINING BREVE~}zhini Navaho
Ga n askidi Navaho
Tónenili Navaho
Zahadolzhá Navaho
Haschebaád Navaho
Gá n askidi. Zahadolzhá. Hasché{~COMBINING BREVE~}lti Navaho
Tónenili, Tobadzischí{~COMBINING BREVE~}ni, Nayé{~COMBINING BREVE~}nezgani Navaho
Yébichai Sweat Navaho
Pikéhodiklad Navaho
Shilhné'ohli Navaho
Zahadolzhá Navaho
Yébichai Hogán Navaho
Yébichai Dancers Navaho
Mescal Harvest Apache
White River Valley Apache
Nalin Lage Apache
Infant Burial Apache
Tobadzischí{~COMBINING BREVE~}ni Navaho
Ga n askidi Navaho
Zahadolzhá Navaho
Hasché{~COMBINING BREVE~}lti , Haschebaád , Zahadolzhá Navaho
Navaho Women
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