American Indian life

Includes bibliographical references Preface / Elsie Clews Parsons -- Introduction / A.L. Kroeber -- Takes-the-pipe, a Crow warrior / Robert H. Lowie -- A Crow woman's tale / Robert H. Lowie -- A trial of shamans / Robert H. Lowie -- Smoking-star, a Blackfoot shaman / Clark Wissler -- Little-wolf joins the medicine lodge / Alanson Skinner -- Thunder-cloud, a Winnebago shaman, relates and prays / Paul Radin -- How Meskwaki children should be brought up / [dictated by] Harry Wilson [recorded by] Truman Michelson -- In Montagnais / Frank G. Speck -- Hanging-flower, the Iroquois / Alexander A. Goldenweiser -- The thunder power of Rumbling-wings / M.R. Harrington -- Tokulki of Tulsa / John R. Swanton -- Slender-maiden of the Apache / P.E. Goddard -- When John the jeweler was sick / told at St. Michael's, Arizona, by one of the Franciscan Fathers ; manuscript contributed by Stewart Culin ; A.M. Stephen -- Waiyautitsa of Zuñi, New Mexico / Elsie Clews Parsons -- Zuñi pictures / Stewart Culin -- Havasupai days / Leslie Spier -- Earth-tongue, a Mohave / A.L. Kroeber -- The chief singer of the Tepecano / J. Alden Mason -- The understudy of Tezcatlipoca / Herbert Spinden -- How Holon Chan became the true man of his people / Sylvanus G. Morley -- The Toltec architect of Chichen Itza / Alfred M. Tozzer -- Wixi of the shellmound people / N.C. Nelson -- All is trouble along the Klamath / T.T. Waterman -- Sayach'apis, a Nootka trader / Edward Sapir -- Windigo, a Chipewyan story / Robert H. Lowie -- Cries-for-salmon, a Ten'a woman / T.B. Reed and Elsie Clews Parsons -- An Eskimo winter / Franz Boas