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oai:indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org:9629

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Title:Religious Customs of Modern Michigan Algonquians
Contributor:Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch
Date:1955
Description:The draft of an unpublished book. Includes pictures and musical scores. Attempts, by detailed analysis and description of present-day customs in historical perspective to evaluate powwows, feasts, and camp meetings in Ottawa culture. Twelve chapters give brief history, biographies, and locations; describe festivals and dances in detail; analyze native songs (scores); describe a Chippewa Methodist camp meeting and hymns, with analysis of hymn texts and tunes. Also, presnnts Ottawa superstitions (bear walking, medicines, herbs), 42 Ottawa myths (see also #2642), material on natural-history usage. Attempts to reconstruct function of ritual, with historical references. 
Extent:1 volume
Identifier:https://indigenousguide.amphilsoc.org/entry/9629
Language:English
Language (ISO639):eng
Spatial Coverage:Cross Village
Harbor Springs
Subject:Anishinaabe
Ojibwe
Ottawa
Ethnography
Religion
Medicine
Folklore
Music
Type:Musical scores
Essays
Type (DCMI):Text

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Archive:  Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society
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Citation: Kurath, Gertrude Prokosch. 1955. Indigenous Materials at the American Philosophical Society.
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