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Los Angeles: Southwest Museum, 1972. Hardcover. As New with no dust jacket. Red cloth decorated covers, Southwest Museum Papers No. 23. The Maru cult was a survivor of the Ghost Dance spread by Paiute prophets in 1870 to Indians all over the US; its theme was giving up the ways of the whites...the Pomos strengthened their patterns of ceremonial life." 134 pages, b/w illustrations.; 7 x 10 1/2
Maru Cult of the Pomo Indians: a California Ghost Dance Survial by Meighan, Clement W. and Francis A. Riddell - 1972
by Meighan, Clement W. and Francis A. Riddell
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Maru Cult of the Pomo Indians: a California Ghost Dance Survial
by Meighan, Clement W. and Francis A. Riddell
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Los Angeles, CA: Southwest Museum. Fine with no dust jacket. 1972. First Edition. Buckram. Red buckram with gilt title and black illustration on front board and gilt title on spine. Boards are clean. Binding is slightly skewed but tight. Text block is clean. This volume is the twenty-third publication by the Southwest Museum, the first museum in Los Angeles and an early force for cultural preservation in the region. It presents a richly researched account of Pomo Indian Ghost Dances, a striking ritual of sovereignty and cultural expression. ; B&W Photographs and illustrations; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 134 pp .
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- Date Published 1972
- Keywords Native Ameican, Califonia, Pomo Indians, Ghost Dance, Southwest Museum, Southwest Museum Papers
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The Maru Cult of the Pomo Indians - A California Ghost Dance Survival
by Meighan, Clement W.; Riddell, Francis A.; Dentzel, Carl Schaefer (Foreword)
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Los Angeles, California: Southwest Museum. Very Good. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. "All informants for this particular example of Pomo Indian history now being dead, it remains the only record that has been written down. Descriptions of ceremonies are detailed enough to allow for restaging by future Indians or other generations who might wish to recreate the older ceremonies." - page ix. x,134 pages. Black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Footnotes & References. Faint erasure and whited-out name atop front free endpaper otherwise very clean, tight and bright with very light wear. An attractive copy. ; Southwest Museum Papers Number Twenty-Three; 4to .
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