The Mails, Thomas E. creator text bibliography nyu New York Marlowe & Company 1995 monographic eng

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xvii, 620 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. 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. Thomas E. Mails ; with a new afterword by the author. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1972. Includes bibliographical references (p. [603]-608) and index. np----- Indians of North America Great Plains 002 E 78 M222m 1995 978/.00497 156924538X 9781569245385 2002278415 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0832/2002278415-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0832/2002278415-d.html DLC 020404 20230404125817.0 78486