
The Osage and the Invisible World
From the Works of Francis La Flesche
Francis La Flesche(Author)
Garrick A. Bailey(Editor)
University of Oklahoma Press
Published on 30. March 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
340 pages
978-0-8061-3132-0 (ISBN)
Description
Francis La Flesche (1857-1932), Omaha Indian and anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology, published an enormous body of work on the religion of the Osage Indians, all gathered from the most knowledgeable Osage religious leaders of their day. Yet his writings have been largely overlooked because they were published piecemeal over the course of twenty-five years and never adequately collected or analyzed. In this book, Garrick A. Bailey brings together in a clear, understandable way La Flesche's data for two important Osage religious ceremonies--the ""Songs of Wa-xo'-be,"" an initiation into a clan priesthood, and the Rite of the Chiefs, an initiation into a tribal priesthood. To put La Flesche's work into perspective, Bailey offers a short biography of this prolific Native American scholar and an overview of traditional Osage religious beliefs and practices.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oklahoma
United States
Illustrations
9 black & white illustrations, 8 figures, 3 tables, 1 map
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
532 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8061-3132-0 (9780806131320)
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