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Survival Arts Of The Primitive Paiutes Margaret M. Wheat

Survival Arts Of The Primitive Paiutes By Margaret M. Wheat

Survival Arts Of The Primitive Paiutes by Margaret M. Wheat


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With over 24,000 copies in print, this bestselling book tells how the Paiutes survived in the harsh Nevada climate. Chronicling food-gathering methods, basket weaving, hunting, skinning, and working with rabbit skins, this book serves as an invaluable reference on early Paiute culture.

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Survival Arts Of The Primitive Paiutes Summary

Survival Arts Of The Primitive Paiutes by Margaret M. Wheat

With over 24,000 copies in print, this bestselling book tells how the Paiutes survived in the harsh Nevada climate. Chronicling food-gathering methods, basket weaving, hunting, skinning, and working with rabbit skins, this book serves as an invaluable reference on early Paiute culture.

Survival Arts Of The Primitive Paiutes Reviews

A complete description of the arts that are rapidly disappearing as the old [Paiutes] die. -Pacific Historian

A rare contribution to the photo documentation of the technology of the Northern Paiute . . . beautiful . . . imaginative. -American Anthropologist

A deeply heartwarming and rewarding work. -Mary Lu Moore, Arizona Highways, May 1983

Table of Contents

Contents
Part I: The Old People and the Land
The Great Basin
Trout-eaters, Cui-ui-eaters, Cattail-eaters
The Cycle of the Year
Return of Spring
Summer Harvest
Fall and Pinenut Time
Before the Snow Flies
Approach to Winter
Waiting for the Sun
Part II: The Coming of the White Man
The Next Hundred Years
Those Wise in the Old Ways
Wuzzie George
Mattie, Wife of Stovepipe
Following Mattie's Trail
Part III: In the Manner of the Old Ones
Harvesting Pinenuts
A Boat of Cattail and Tule
Making a Duck Decoy
Cordage
Fishing and Harpoons
Arrows and Deadfalls
Rabbit Pelts, Buckskin, and Bark
Articles from Soft Fibers
Willow Work
Cradleboards
Building Houses
Notes

Additional information

CIN0874170486VG
9780874170481
0874170486
Survival Arts Of The Primitive Paiutes by Margaret M. Wheat
Used - Very Good
Paperback
University of Nevada Press
19770101
140
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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