Secret societies, Great Plains, Indigenous peoples -- Great Plains -- Rites and ceremonies, Indigenous peoples -- Rites and ceremonies, Indigenous dance -- Great Plains, Indigenous dance, Secret societies -- Great Plains 

viii, 1031 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. 

Notes:
Reprint of v. 11 of Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History, published in 13 pts. from 1912 to 1916.

Bibliography: p. 987-992.

Includes index.

pt. 1. Wissler, C. Societies and ceremonial associations in the Oglala division of the Teton-Dakota.--pt. 2. Lowie, R. H. Dance associations of the eastern Dakota.--pt. 3. Lowie, R. H. Societies of the Crow, Hidatsa, and Mandan Indians.--pt. 4. Wissler, C. Societies and dance associations of the Blackfoot Indians.--pt. 5. Goddard, P. E. Dancing societies of the Sarsi Indians.--pt. 6. Skinner, A. Political organization, cults, and ceremonies of the Plains-Ojibway and Plains-Cree Indians.--pt. 7. Murie, J. R. Pawnee Indian societies.--pt. 8. Lowie, R. H. Societies of the Arikara Indians.--pt. 9. Skinner, A. Societies of the Iowa, Kansa, and Ponca Indians.--pt. 10. Lowie, R. H. Dances and societies of the Plains Shoshone.--pt. 11. Lowie, R. H. Societies of the Kiowa.--pt. 12. Wissler, C. General discussion of shamanistic and dancing societies.--pt. 13. Lowie, R. H. Plains Indian age-societies: historical and comparative summary.