The Seri Indians. (1898 N 17 / 1895-1896 (pages 1-344*))
W J McGee
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Book language: English
519 pages
The Seri Indians is an ethnographic report by W J McGee, published by the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1898. It surveys the Seri people, their habitat, physical characteristics, local flora and fauna, history, tribal features, and symbolism. It offers a historical anthropological view of an Indigenous group of the Sonoran coast.
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Title: The Seri Indians. (1898 N 17 / 1895-1896 (pages 1-344*))
Author: W J McGee
Contributor: J. N. B. Hewitt
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Language: English
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THE SERI INDIANS
BY
W J McGEE
Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-96, Government
Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 1—344*
Contents
page
Introduction
9
Salient features
9
Recent explorations and surveys
12
Acknowledgments
20
Habitat
22
Location and area
22
Physical characteristics
22
Flora
31
Fauna 36 Local features 39 Summary history 51 Tribal features 123 Definition and nomenclature 123 External relations 130* Population 134* Somatic characters 136* Demotic characters 164* Symbolism and decoration 164* Face-painting 164* Decoration in general 169* The significance of decoration 176* Industries and industrial products 180* Food and food-getting 180* Navigation 215* Habitations 221* Appareling 224* Tools and their uses 232* Warfare 254* Nascent industrial development 265* Social organization 269* Clans and totems 269* Chiefship 275* Adoption 277* Marriage 279* Mortuary customs 287* Serial place of seri socialry 293* Language 296* Comparative lexicology Index Footnotes
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