The Indians of Canada

Diamond Jenness, National Museums of Canada, National Museum of Man (Canada)

University of Toronto Press, 01.01.1977 - 432 Seiten

First published in 1932, The Indians of Canada remains the most comprehensive works available on Canada's Indians. Part one includes chapters on languages, economic conditions, food resources, hunting and fishing, dress and adornment, dwellings, travel and transportation, trade and commerce, social and political organization, social life, religion, folklore and traditions, and drama, music, and art. The second part of the book describes the tribes in different groupings: the migratory tribbes of the eastern woodlands, the plains tribes, tribes of the Pacific coast, of the Cordillera, and the Mackenzie and Yukon River basins, and finally the Eskimo.

Inhalt

• INTRODUCTION: 1
• A Tahltan hunter typical of the Indians of northern Canada Photo by James: 5
• Cultural areas of Canada: 11
• CHAPTER II: 17
• CreeOjibwa village of bark lodges Painting by Verner in the Public Archives: 18
• Interior of an Iroquois longhouse reproduced through the courtesy of A C Parker: 23
• CHAPTER III: 28
• a lumps of iron pyrites b a fireplough c a hand: 29
• An Eskimo of the Mackenzie River delta using a bowdrill for piercing bone Photo: 35
• CHAPTER IV: 40
• Moeurs des Sauvages: 41
• Smokehouses of the Tsimshian Indians for drying salmon Kitkargas B C Photo: 47
• CHAPTER V: 53
• Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of: 55
• Coronation Gulf Eskimos spearing salmon trout Photo by D Jenness: 62
• CHAPTER VI: 67
• Coast Salish woman weaving a blanket of dog hair and mountaingoat wool another: 68
• CHAPTER VII: 84
• CHAPTER VIII: 100
• CHAPTER IX: 118
• CHAPTER X: 133
• Blackfoot Blood burial scaffold: 164
• Effigies of two men in a canoe made of twigs by a Nootka Indian and secluded: 172
• Tlinkit medicineman and his incantations reproduced from an old illustration: 179
• FOLKLORE AND TRADITIONS: 185
• Bella Coola Indian dramatizing the supernatural being Echo Photo by Harlan: 186
• Bella Coola Indian wearing the Thunder mask Photo by Harlan I Smith: 196
• CHAPTER XIV: 200
• Actors in the Cannibal dance Bella Coola Photo by Harlan I Smith: 202
• Typical designs in the art of the Canadian aborigines prepared by D Leechman: 208
• Coiled baskets of the Thompson River Indians Photo by National Museum: 213
• CHAPTER XV: 216
• Shellheap or kitchenmidden near the mouth of the Fraser river B C showing: 221
• The two types of Indians one broadheaded the other narrowheaded found: 227
• CHAPTER XVI: 233
• A Chukchee woman and her children northeast Siberia Except for their clothes: 234
• Chukchee from the Siberian coast approaching Little Diomede island Bering strait: 244
• CHAPTER XVII: 249
• The old graveyards are small but the new ones large and overflowing A Haida: 252
• Part II: 259
• The transformation of the Indian A Chilcotin cowboy Photo by Harlan I Smith: 262
• CHAPTER XVIII: 265
• CHAPTER XIX: 288
• CHAPTER XX: 308
• TRIBES OF THE PACIFIC COAST: 327
• Tlinkit: 328
• Haida: 331
• Tsimshian: 335
• Bella Coola: 339
• Kwakiutl: 342
• Nootka: 345
• Coast Salish: 347
• CHAPTER XXII: 351
• Kootenay: 358
• Chilcotin: 361
• Carrier: 363
• Tsetsaut: 369
• Tahltan: 370
• Tagish: 376
• CHAPTER XXIII: 377
• Beaver: 382
• Chipewyan: 385
• Yellowknife: 388
• Slave: 389
• Dogrib: 392
• Hare: 394
• Nahani: 396
• Kutchin: 399
• CHAPTER XXIV: 405
• INDEX: 423

Autoren-Profil

DIAMOND JENNESS (1886-1969) was born in New Zealand and came to Canada in 1913 as an ethnologist. He retired from the Federal Service in 1947 after over thirty years of study of the ethnology of Canada's Native peoples.

Bibliografische Informationen

• Titel: The Indians of Canada; Band 15 von Anthropological series; Ausgabe 15 von Bulletin (National Museum of Canada).: Anthropological series; Ausgabe 65 von Bulletin (National Museums of Canada); Canadian university paperbooks; Band 15 von National Museum of Canada Ottawa: Anthropological series; Band 65 von National Museum of Canada Ottawa: Bulletin
• Autoren: Diamond Jenness, National Museums of Canada, National Museum of Man (Canada)
• Ausgabe: illustriert, Neuauflage
• Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 1977
• ISBN: 0802063268, 9780802063267
• Länge: 432 Seiten