The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Candace S. Greene (Editor), Russell Thornton (Editor)Publish date:2007-06-01Pages:377
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9780803222113ISBN-10:803222114UPC:9780803222113Book Category:History, Social Science, ArtBook Subcategory:Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, Ethnic Studies, Indigenous Art of the AmericasBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.42 x 10.17 x 1.34 inchesWeight:2.5133Product ID:SCX1988657
The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian
Winter counts--pictorial calendars by which Plains Indians kept track of their past--marked each year with a picture of a memorable event. The Lakota, or Western Sioux, recorded many different events in their winter counts, but all include "the year the stars fell," the spectacular Leonid meteor shower of 1833-34. This volume is an unprecedented assemblage of information on the important...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9780803222113ISBN-10:803222114UPC:9780803222113Book Category:History, Social Science, ArtBook Subcategory:Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, Ethnic Studies, Indigenous Art of the AmericasBook Topic:AmericanSize:8.42 x 10.17 x 1.34 inchesWeight:2.5133Product ID:SCX1988657
Candace S. Greene is an ethnologist in the Anthropology Collections and Archives program at the Smithsonian Institution and author of Silver Horn: Master Illustrator of the Kiowa. Russell Thornton, a registered member of the Cherokee Nation, is a distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of California-Los Angeles and author of The Cherokees: A Population History (Nebraska 1990).
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