Ojibwa, Ojibwa -- Social life and customs, Saulteaux -- Social life and customs, Saulteaux 

"This work contains all of the information on the many aspects of Chippewa (Ojibway) life, customs and manners. It covers such seldom treated phases as dwellings, manner of life in the wigwam, clothing, food, treatment of the sick, care of infants, including descriptions of their toys, dolls, stories told them and sports and games for children. It further examines and faithfully reports puberty customs, courtship and marriage and the customs pertaining to death, burial and mourning.

It serves also as a guide to their activities in the field of crafts including the weaving of cloth for clothing and blankets as well as the making of cooking utensils, canoes, pipes, their use of fire.

A comprehensive record of the musical instruments they made and used, and their use of wood, stone and bone is included as well as their expressions in the arts, as in the dance and its significance and their pictorial representations.

All in all, it is a widely diversified treatment of all of the cultural aspects of the life and attitudes of the Chippewa Indian."--Book jacket.