| Contents |
PART ONE THE 1933 COMANCHE FIELD PARTYIntroduction; The 1933 Field Party Notes; Herman Asenap, June 30-July 1; Notes on a Comanche Funeral, July 1; Quassyah, July 5; Niyah, July 6; Rhoda Asenap, July 7; Niyah, July 7; Herman Asenap, July 7; Niyah, July 8; Niyah, July 10; Post Oak Jim, July 11; Post Oak Jim, July 12; Rhoda Asenap, July 12; Post Oak Jim, July 13; Post Oak Jim, July 14; Post Oak Jim, July 17; Post Oak Jim, July 18; Post Oak Jim, July 19; George Koweno, July 21; Post Oak Jim, July 24; Post Oak Jim, July 25; Niyah, July 25; Unidentified Consultant, Undated; Frank Chekovi, Undated I; Post Oak Jim, July 26; Frank Chekovi, Undated II; Niyah, July 27; Howard White Wolf, July 31; Nemaruibetsi, July 31; Nemaruibetsi, August 1; Howard White Wolf, August 1; Frank Chekovi, August 2; Howard White Wolf, August 2; Frank Chekovi, August 3; Howard White Wolf, August 3; Frank Chekovi, August 4; Howard White Wolf, August 4; Atauvich, August 7; Nemaruibetsi, August 8; Post Oak Jim, Undated; Atauvich, August 9; Frank Chekovi, August 10; Frank Chekovi and Pedahny, August 11; Unidentified Consultant, August 10-12; Herkeyah, August 13; Herkeyah, August 14; Herkeyah, August 15; Frank Moetah, August 16; Quassyah, August; Rhoda Asenap, Undated; Post Oak Jim, Undated; Tahsuda, Undated; Frank Chekovi, Undated III; Norton Tahquechi, Undated; Teneverka, Undated; Nemaruibetsi, Undated; Herkeyah, Undated; Howard White Wolf, Undated; Ohataipa, Undated; Unidentified Consultant, Undated; Notes on Dances at Walters and Apache, Undated PART TWO ROBERT LOWIE'S 1912 FIELD TRIPIntroduction; Lowie's 1912 Field Notes APPENDIX A: Sources of Ethnographic Information in Hoebel (1940); APPENDIX B: Sources of Ethnographic Information in Wallace and Hoebel (1952); APPENDIX C: Sources of Ethnobotanical Information in Carlson and Jones (1940); APPENDIX D: Comanche Lexicon References; Index. |
| Review |
"In the summer of 1933 in Lawton, Oklahoma, a team of six anthropologists met with eighteen Comanche eiders to record the latter's reminiscences of traditional Comanche culture. The depth and breadth of what the elderly Comanches recalled provides an inestimable source of knowledge for generations to come, both within and beyond the Comanche community. This monumental volume makes available for the first time the largest archive of traditional cultural information on Comanches ever gathered by American anthropologists." "Much of the Comanches' earlier world is presented here - religious stories, historical accounts, autobiographical remembrances, cosmology, the practice of war, everyday games, birth rituals, funerals, kinship relations, the organization of camps, material culture, and relations with other tribes."--Jacket. |
