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Author Wheat, Margaret M

Title Survival Arts Of The Primitive Paiutes
Published Reno : University of Nevada Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (208 pages)
Contents Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; 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 DecoyCordage; Fishing and Harpoons; Arrows and Deadfalls; Rabbit pelts, Buckskin, and Bark; Articles from Soft Fibers; Willow Work; Cradleboards; Building Houses; Notes; Glossary
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Subject Paiute Indians -- Industries
Indians of North America -- Food.
Indians of North America -- Food
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780874174533
0874174538