Author: Frank Gouldsmith SpeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Chapters on the Ethnology of the Powhatan Tribes of Virginia
Author: Frank Gouldsmith SpeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Chapters on the Ethnology of the Powhatan Tribes of Virginia
Author: Frank Gouldsmith SpeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
Chapters on Ethnology of the Powhatan Tribes of Virginia
Author: Frank Gouldsmith SpeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
Chapters on the Ethnology of the Powhatan Tribes of Virginia
Author: Frank G. SpeckPublisher:
ISBN: 9780404156947
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Encyclopedia Of American Indian Costume
Author: Josephine PaterekPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393313826
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
A beautifully produced and illustrated (bandw) reference that offers complete descriptions and cultural contexts of the dress and ornamentation of the North American Indian tribes. The volume is divided into ten cultural regions, with each chapter giving an overview of the regional clothing. Individual tribes of the area follow in alphabetical order. Tribal information includes men's basic dress, women's basic dress, footwear, outer wear, hair styles, headgear, accessories, jewelry, armor, special costumes, garment decoration, face and body embellishment, transitional dress after European contact, and bibliographic references. Appendices include a description of clothing arts and a glossary. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Powhatan Indians of Virginia
Author: Helen C. RoundtreePublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806176865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Among the aspects of Powhatan life that Helen Rountree describes in vivid detail are hunting and agriculture, territorial claims, warfare and treatment of prisoners, physical appearance and dress, construction of houses and towns, education of youths, initiation rites, family and social structure and customs, the nature of rulers, medicine, religion, and even village games, music, and dance. Rountree’s is the first book-length treatment of this fascinating culture, which included one of the most complex political organizations in native North American and which figured prominently in early American history.
The Massawomeck
Author: James F. PendergastPublisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871698124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The Massawomeck are but one of several hinterland Indian groups which having made a brief, frequently violent, appearance during the 17th century, disappear. Eyewitness & contemporary accounts of the Massawomeck, which are confined to the period 1607-1634, are closely associated with the founding of the English Jamestown & Maryland colonies in tidewater Virginia. Unfortunately, references to the Massawomeck are brief & frequently apart from the mainstream of events. Yet a sizable body of antiquarian & scholarly literature regarding the Massawomeck was generated, largely in the 19th century, which often classified them as one or another of the Iroquois tribes. This vol. attempts to expand upon what is known of the Massawomeck in the hope that it will be possible to enhance our understanding of trade between the mid-Atlantic Indians in the Chesapeake Bay latitudes & the Ontario Iroquois in the 16th century & the first three decades of the 17th century.
Native America in the Twentieth Century
Author: Mary B. DavisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135638616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2037
Book Description
First Published in 1996. Articles on present-day tribal groups comprise more than half of the coverage, ranging from essays on the Navajo, Lakota, Cherokee, and other large tribes to shorter entries on such lesser-known groups as the Hoh, Paugusett, and Tunica-Biloxi. Also 25 inlcludes maps.
Powhatan Lords of Life and Death
Author: Margaret Holmes WilliamsonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803260375
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
A richly textured portrait of the famous Native leader Powhatan and his realm emerges in this revisionist study. For decades the English colonists at and around Jamestown lived in the shadow of a powerful confederation of Native American communities led by Powhatan. That realm encompassed the Tidewater area of Virginia from the James River to the Potomac River. For many years Powhatan skillfully staved off threats from other Native peoples and from European colonists. Despite the prominence of Powhatan during the early colonial years, our knowledge of him and life in his realm is filtered nearly completely through the eyewitness accounts of Europeans. ø In Powhatan Lords of Life and Death, an incisive structuralist perspective and an impressive synthesis and reinterpretation of available records by anthropologist Margaret Holmes Williamson provides a more complex and culturally appropriate view of the realm of Powhatan during the crucial early decades of the seventeenth century. Alternative conceptions of power and cosmology are set forth that force reconsideration of important components of Powhatan society, including the basis of leadership, the relationship between political leaders and religious specialists, the role of ritual, and the resonance of Powhatan cosmological beliefs with those of other southeastern Native peoples. Powhatan Lords of Life and Death revisits a pivotal figure in American history and enables us to appreciate more fully Powhatan and the fascinating world he helped to create.
The Complete Works of Captain John Smith, 1580-1631, Volume III
Author: Philip L. BarbourPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469600072
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Edited by the late Philip L. Barbour, acknowledged as the leading authority on Captain John Smith, this annotated three-volume work is the only modern edition of the works of the legendary figure who captured the interest of scholars and general readers for over four centuries. A hero and adventurer, Smith was the leader who saved Jamestown from self-destruction, and he was also instrumental in the exploration and settlement of New England. He produced one of the basic ethnological studies of the tide-water Algonkians, an invaluable contemporary history of early Virginia, the earliest well-defined maps of Chesapeake Bay and the New England coast, and the first printed dictionary of English nautical terms. This is Volume III of three volumes. Originally published in 2011. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.