The Nehalem Tillamook
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Maps
Principal Ethnolinguistic Groups of the
Southern Northwest Coast
Major Tillamook Ethnolinguistic Subgroups
Principal Nehalem Tillamook Villages in the
Mid-Nineteenth Century
Editor's Introduction to
The Nehalem Tillamook: An Ethnography
1. The Tillamook
2. Rocking Chair Ethnography
3. History of Ethnographic and Linquistic
on the Tillamook Indians
4. Jacobs's Tillamook Research in Comparative
Perspective
5. Biographies
6. The Editor's Role in Transforming
the
Ethnography
Author's Introduction
1. Material Culture and Subsistence
Introduction
Houses
Canoes
Hunting
Cooking
Important Seasonal Foods
Body Decoration
Clothing
Ceremonial Attire and Accessories
Natural Medicines and Hygiene
Miscellany
2. Social Organization
Introduction
Slaves and Slave Raiding
War Expeditions
Dispute Settlement
Headmen
Marriage and Sexuality
Wedding Arrangements and Ceremony
Polygyny
Extent of Levirate-Sororate
Child Betrothal
Behavior Toward In-Laws and Other Affines
Post-Menopause Sexuality
Transvestism
3. The Life Cycle
Birth, Infant Care, and Adolescence
Babyland
Pregnancy
Wet Nurse
Ear Piercing and Naming
Care of Children
Daily Round of a Child
Adolescence
Death, Burial, Purification, and Mourning
Death
Burial
Reburial
Purifications
Mourning
Inheritance
4. Worldview and Ceremonial Expression
Introduction
Obtaining Guardian Spirit Powers
Shamans and Shamanism
Introduction
Procedures of a Drawing Doctor
Sucking Doctors: Female
The Winter Dance
Spirit Doctors and the Spirit World
Two Spirit Doctors Known Pearson
General Notes on Shamans
The Love-Doctor
Guardian Spirit Powers
Doctoring Powers
Hunting Powers
Wealth Powers
Bird Powers
Miscellaneous Powers
Bad Powers
Wild Womand and Insanity Concepts
The Southwest Wind Dance
Cosmology
Sun and Moon
Eclipses
Solstices
Stars
Earth
Weather
The First Salmon Ceremony
Treatment of Animals
5. Expressive Culture
Folklore
Music and Songs
Lullaby
Spirit Power Songs
Fun Songs
Dreams
Games
Etiquette
Appendix 1: Northwest Coast Language
Classification
Appendix 2: Biographical Notes on Tillamootk
Persons Discussed in the
Ethnography
Appendix 3: Inventory of Jacobs's Nethalem Tillamook
Linguistic Transcriptions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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