Omaha Secret Societies / / R. F. Fortune.

Studies the Omaha tribe as it was stratified into four classes as determined by title held in the paternal line; priests, chiefs, doctors, and doctoring society members and non-privileged persons.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1969]
©1969
Year of Publication:1969
Language:English
Series:Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • I. Introduction
  • II. General Sketch of Omaha Society
  • III. The Sacred Amongst the Omah
  • IV. The Secret Societies
  • V. Further Individual Accounts of Religious Experience
  • VI. Further Societies
  • VII. Religious Practices
  • VIII. Tales and Legends Bearing on the Religion or the Secret Societies