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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958. Creek religion and medicine. Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c2000 (OCoLC)606487295 Online version: Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958. Creek religion and medicine. Lincoln, Neb. : University of Nebraska Press, c2000 (OCoLC)632023809 |
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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Reed Swanton |
| ISBN: | 0803292740 9780803292741 |
| OCLC Number: | 43390792 |
| Notes: | Originally published: Religious beliefs and medicinal practices of the Creek Indians : Washington, D.C. : U.S. Gov. Print. Off., 1928, in series: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Annual report ; 42d ; 1924/1925 |
| Description: | vii, p. [477]-684 ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Cosmos 477 -- Supernatural beings 481 -- Charms 498 -- Fate of souls 510 -- Miscellaneous beliefs 515 -- Sacrifices 516 -- Taboos 517 -- Music and dancing 521 -- Ceremonies 534 -- Miscellaneous ceremonies 534 -- Ceremony of the asi 538 -- Minor ceremonies connected with the square grounds 544 -- Great annual ceremony or busk 546 -- Shamanism and medicine 614 -- "Knowers" 615 -- "Fasters" or doctors 617 -- Methods of practicing 622 -- Weather controllers 629 -- Witcheraft 631 -- Diseases and remedies 636 -- Creek medicines 639 -- Alabama medicines 663 -- Natchez medicines 667 -- 8. Creek Busk: The Women's dance -- 9. Creek Busk: Women's dance at the Okchai Busk in 1912 -- 10. Okchai Busk. a. Box for tobacco, medicine, and drum in the Chiefs' Bed. b. Rite of the emetic -- 11. Taking the emetic at Okchai -- 12. Creek Busk. a and b. The Tcitahaia or "Feather dance." c. The Square Ground just after the fasters have left to bathe in a neighboring creek -- 13. Creek and Natchez Indians. a. Drum. b. Ceremonial ground near Braggs, Okla., used by the Natchez, Creek, and Cherokee Indians. c. Home of the Kila or Prophet Yahola -- 10S. Arrangement of ears of corn on the fire sticks at the Chiaha busk. |
| Other Titles: | Religious beliefs and medicinal practices of the Creek Indians |
| Responsibility: | by John R. Swanton ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by James T. Carson. |
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- Creek Indians -- Religion.
- Creek Indians -- Medicine.
- Creek mythology.
- Creek dance.
- Medicine, Traditional -- Alabama.
- Medicine, Traditional -- Oklahoma.
- Medicine, Traditional -- Texas.
- Indians, North American -- Alabama.
- Indians, North American -- Oklahoma.
- Indians, North American -- Texas.
- Mythology -- Alabama.
- Mythology -- Oklahoma.
- Mythology -- Texas.
- Religion -- Alabama.
- Religion -- Oklahoma.
- Religion -- Texas.
