Mails, Thomas E. <br/><br/>
The mystic warriors of the Plains / 
 Subtitle on cover: The culture, arts, crafts, and religion of the Plains Indians 
Thomas E. Mails ; with a new afterword by the author. 
 - New York :  Marlowe & Company,  1995 
 - xvii, 620 p. :  ill. (some col.) ;  28 cm. 
<br/><br/> Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1972. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [603]-608) and index. 
<br/><br/>Origin, distribution, and nature of the people of the plains -- Manner of daily life -- Social customs -- Personal qualities -- Form of Government -- Religion-supernatural beliefs -- Religion-the practices of medicine -- Religion-visions and personal power -- Religion-purification -- Religion-Thanksgiving -- Religion-death and the life after -- The buffalo and the horse -- An overview of arts and crafts -- Painting -- quillwork and beadwork -- Achievement marks -- Clothing -- Hair styles, jewelry, and headdresses -- Bows, arrows and quivers -- Lances, knives, clubs, hatchets, and guns -- Shields -- The birth and training of the boy -- The mature warrior on the field of action -- The redistribution and decline of the people of the plains. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>156924538X 9781569245385 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2002278415 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Indians of North America--Great Plains.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>002 E 78  / M222m 1995 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>978/.00497