01841cam a2200289 a 45000010006000000050017000060080041000230100015000640350023000790400039001020200015001410200018001560350020001740430012001940500025002060820015002311000021002462450095002672460085003622600041004473000047004885000063005355040066005985050752006646500044014168560091014607848620230404125817.0020404r19952002nyua     b    001 0 eng    a2002278415  a(OCoLC)ocm48959324  aDLCcDLCdBAKERdBTCTAdYDXCPdUAB  a156924538X  a9781569245385  a(OCoLC)48959324  anp-----14a002 E 78bM222m 199500a978/.004971 aMails, Thomas E.14aThe mystic warriors of the Plains /cThomas E. Mails ; with a new afterword by the author.3 aSubtitle on cover: The culture, arts, crafts, and religion of the Plains Indians  aNew York :bMarlowe & Company,c1995  axvii, 620 p. :bill. (some col.) ;c28 cm.  aOriginally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1972.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [603]-608) and index.0 aOrigin, 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. 0aIndians of North AmericazGreat Plains.423Publisher descriptionuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0832/2002278415-d.html