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Salish People : Volume II:The Squamish and the Lillooet.
Title:
Salish People : Volume II:The Squamish and the Lillooet.
Author:
Hill-Tout, Charles.
ISBN:
9780889228863
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (134 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction -- Footnotes to Introduction -- Notes on the Cosmogony and History of the Squamish Indians of British Columbia (1897) -- Notes on the Skqomic [Squamish] of British Columbia, a Branch of the Great Salish Stock of North America (1900) -- Ethnography -- Place-names -- Social Organisation -- Mortuary Customs -- Birth Customs -- Customs Practised to Prevent Pregnancy -- Marriage Customs -- Naming -- Puberty Customs -- Dwellings -- Household Utensils -- Dress -- Tattooing and Painting -- Games -- Dances -- Potlatches -- Wars -- Food -- Physical Characteristics -- Archaeology -- Canoes -- Linguistics -- Folklore -- Qais -- Tsaianuk -- The Son of the Bright Day -- Te Qoitcital, the Serpent-slayer -- Te Sqoqwaotl, or the Deserted Youth -- Smenatl, or the Story of the Chief's Daughter -- Story of Sqeils, the Copper-man -- Te Skauk, the Raven -- Story of Smemetsen and Kaiq, the Skunk and the Mink -- Te Siatlmeq, the Rain-man -- Skauk and Kwaietek, or the Origin of Daylight -- Tle Kaklaitl, the Witch-Giantess -- Te Sklau, the Beaver -- Te Smailetl, or Wildmen Story -- Report on the Ethnology of the Stlatlumh [Lillooet] of British Columbia -- Ethnography and Sociology -- Place-names -- Marriage -- Bars to Marriage -- Dwellings -- Food -- Household Utensils -- Dress -- Puberty Customs -- Mortuary Customs -- Mortuary Taboos and Prohibitions -- Birth Customs -- Salmon Ceremonies -- Totemism -- Nomenology -- Crests -- Time, or Divisions of the Day -- Sundry Beliefs and Superstitions -- Linguistic -- Myths and Traditions -- Kaiyam -- Myth of the Origin of the Mountain-goat Kin -- Myth of the Man Who Restored the Dead -- The Gambler -- Myth of the Deserted Boy -- Myth of the Dead Woman Who Became a Bear -- Myth of the Marriage of North Wind and South Wind -- List of Works Cited in Volume II.
Abstract:
Volume II of this four-volume ethnographic study focuses on the Squamish and Lillooet peoples of the Pacific Northwest (British Columbia).
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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