The structure of Twana culture
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The structure of Twana culture
（WSU Press reprint series）
Washington State University Press, c1992
- pbk.
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Spine title: Twana culture
"Originally published as Monograph supplement no. 2, Research studies, a quarterly publication of Washington State University, vol. XXVIII, no. 3, September 1960, supplement"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 570-576)
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Description
This remarkable account of Washington's Twana Indians contains the most complete body of information compiled on any Native American group in the southern coast Salish region. The Structure of Twana Culture, which describes the lifeways of the aboriginal people of Hood Canal on the east side of the Olympic Peninsula, has long been of special interest to readers interested in the pre-white and pre-reservation life of tribal peoples.Originally published in 1960, William W. Elmendorf's well-written ethnography includes a new foreword, but otherwise remains unabridged and unaltered. Also retained are A. L. Kroeber's extensive notes on the Yurok Indians of northwest California. These notes compare aspects of Yurok culture to that of the Twana, providing an informative perspective on the similarities and variances of cultures within the southern Northwest Coast area.
Table of Contents
1 INTRODUCTION2 THE TWANA COUNTRY
Geographic Description
Orientation/Directions
Time and Space Measurement
Geographic Nomenclature
Geographic Sites
3 SUBSISTENCE
Food Resources/Subsistence Patterns
Fishing
Hunting
Food
4 TECHNIQUES AND PASTIMES
The Category
Houses
Boats/Transport
Cordage, Fabrics, Skin Dressing
Dress, Ornament, Valuables
Fire
Musical Instruments
Games/Pastimes
Material Remedies, Sweating
5 NATURE OF LOCAL GROUPS
Speech Community
Salt-Water and Inland Culture Groupings
Winter-Village Community
Skokomish Extended Winter-Village Community
Summer Groupings
Traits of Localized Social Units
6 LAND USE, OWNERSHIP, BOUNDARIES
Speech-Community Territory and Boundaries
Trespass
Territorial Claims of Local Communities
Use-Ownership and Watercourses
7 POPULATION SHIFTS AND CULTURE CONTACT
Pre-European Traditional
Post-European Historical
Stages in Postcontact History
8 RELATIONS WITH OTHER PEOPLES
Linguistic Relations
Ethnic Contact
9 SOCIAL STRUCTURE
Main Types of Social Groupings
Village Communities
Social Classes
Kin Groups and Marriage
Names and Naming
Occupational Groupings
Relations of Community, Classes, and Kin Groups
10 KIN-GROUP FUNCTIONS IN LIFE CRISES
Crisis Patterns: Beliefs and Rituals
Birth and Child Treatment
Child Training, Education
Girl's Puberty
Death Observances11 WAR AND INTERGROUP HOSTILITY
Hostility Outlets
Warriors
Intercommunity Malignant Magic
Blood Feuding
Forms of Hostility
12 RELIGION
Expressions of Supernaturalism
Guardian Spirits and Spirit Power
Shamanism
Souls and the Land of the Dead
Magic
Miscellaneous Beliefs
13 CEREMONIAL COMPLEXES
Summary of Public Ceremonial Forms
Classification of Ceremonial Forms
Sponsored Ceremonies of Religious Function
14 SUMMARY
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