Research Catalog

Title

Creek religion and medicine / by John R. Swanton.

Author

Swanton, John Reed, 1873-1958

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2000.

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Additional Authors

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

Description

vii, p. 477-684 : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Alabama
• Creek Indians > Medicine
• Creek Indians > Religion
• Creek dance
• Creek mythology
• Indians, North American
• Indians, North American > Oklahoma
• Indians, North American > Texas
• Medicine, Traditional
• Medicine, Traditional > Oklahoma
• Medicine, Traditional > Texas
• Mythology
• Mythology > Oklahoma
• Mythology > Texas
• Oklahoma
• Religion
• Religion > Oklahoma
• Religion > Texas
• Texas

Note

• Originally published: Religious beliefs and medicinal practices of the Creek Indians : Washington, D.C. : U.S. Gov. Print. Off., 1928, in series: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Annual report ; 42d ; 1924/1925.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 672) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Cosmos 477 -- Supernatural beings 481 -- Charms 498 -- Fate of souls 510 -- Miscellaneous beliefs 515 -- Sacrifices 516 -- Taboos 517 -- Music and dancing 521 -- Ceremonies 534 -- Miscellaneous ceremonies 534 -- Ceremony of the asi 538 -- Minor ceremonies connected with the square grounds 544 -- Great annual ceremony or busk 546 -- Shamanism and medicine 614 -- "Knowers" 615 -- "Fasters" or doctors 617 -- Methods of practicing 622 -- Weather controllers 629 -- Witcheraft 631 -- Diseases and remedies 636 -- Creek medicines 639 -- Alabama medicines 663 -- Natchez medicines 667 -- 8. Creek Busk: The Women's dance -- 9. Creek Busk: Women's dance at the Okchai Busk in 1912 -- 10. Okchai Busk. a. Box for tobacco, medicine, and drum in the Chiefs' Bed. b. Rite of the emetic -- 11. Taking the emetic at Okchai -- 12. Creek Busk. a and b. The Tcitahaia or "Feather dance." c. The Square Ground just after the fasters have left to bathe in a neighboring creek -- 13. Creek and Natchez Indians. a. Drum. b. Ceremonial ground near Braggs, Okla., used by the Natchez, Creek, and Cherokee Indians. c. Home of the Kila or Prophet Yahola -- 10S. Arrangement of ears of corn on the fire sticks at the Chiaha busk.

ISBN

0803292740 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^00021701^

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Harvard Library