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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 523–569.
Published: 01 October 2010
...Caroline Funk Yupiit living along the Bering Sea coast south of the mouth of the Yukon River regularly engaged in violent conflict with more northern riverine Yupiit prior to the 1840s AD arrival of Russian explorers and traders. The conflict is known as the Bow and Arrow War Days, and outside...
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Published: 01 January 2018
Figure 2. Overview of Cheval Bonnet site. Arrows indicate panels numbered 1, 2, and 3 from right to left. Photograph by author
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (1): 189–190.
Published: 01 January 2016
...., illustra-
tions, preface, appendix, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. $70.00 cloth.)
David J. Silverman, George Washington University
Gifts from the Thunder Beings is a crisply written and brilliantly executed
comparison of bow-and-arrow and firearms technology primarily among
the Cree...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 January 2021
... at Joliet. The front enemy rider is shown wearing two head feathers, unlike the single feather at Joliet. White Swan holds an arrow and bow, not a quirt as at Joliet. The rear enemy warrior is wounded by an arrow, but not at Joliet. The bridle of the enemy horse is decorated with a scalp, unlike at Joliet...
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Ethnohistory (2016) 63 (4): 671–695.
Published: 01 October 2016
... them, with bows, arrows and darts tipped with poison, and large stone missiles. The very night the Spanish expedition returned to the ships on 15 June, Pedrarias’s armada departed for Darién (Oviedo y Valdés 1851–55 , 3:25–32). Oviedo’s eyewitness account of the landing and entrada (incursion...
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Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (2): 263–291.
Published: 01 April 2011
... North American Bows, Arrows, and Quivers . In Annual Report for 1893 . Pp. 631 – 79 . Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution . Mayer Brantz 1853 Mexico: Aztec, Spanish, and Republican: A Historical, Geographical, Political, Statistical, and Social Account of that Country from...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (4): 689–726.
Published: 01 October 2005
... described the female warriors as ‘‘very white and tall, and [they] have
hair very long and braided and wound about the head, and they are very
robust and go about naked, [but] with their privy parts covered, with their
bows and arrows in their hands, doing as much fighting as ten Indian men’’
(214–15...
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Ethnohistory (2018) 65 (3): 391–415.
Published: 01 July 2018
... on to their homestead allotments outside the repositioned reservation boundary line. 51 In British Columbia, by 1902, reserve commissioners established one reserve for the Sinixt at Oatscott, along the Arrow Lakes, where the remaining band resided only infrequently. 52 Baptiste and Alexander Christian’s band...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (1): 125–145.
Published: 01 January 2021
..., that sometimes rests in the branches of a tree. And [the bird] perched. At that time [the hunter] shoots his arrow, he shot [repeatedly], and neither his arrow nor his projectiles will be in vain; he will ably kill the bird. The text then transitions to a second related metaphor that features one more...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (3): 549–565.
Published: 01 July 2003
... with a
flat platform. On it rests the gigantic figure of ‘‘the RainmakeranIndian
on one knee who holds a cocked bow fitted with an arrow pointing toward
heaven; turning on its platform almost imperceptibly, the figure completes...
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in A Comparison of Historical Evidence for Droughts in the Pre-Columbian Maya Codices with Climatological Evidence for Droughts during the Early and Late Classic Periods
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Published: 01 January 2020
Figure 3. The fourth picture and caption in the Mars table on page 45b of the Dresden Codex. The arrow points to the kin-tun-haabil collocation. After Villacorta C. and Villacorta ( 1976 : 100). Courtesy of Jorge Luis Villacorta.
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Ethnohistory (2010) 57 (4): 679–708.
Published: 01 October 2010
... found the four soldiers and mas-
ter carpenter. Only one soldier remained uninjured, and the carpenter was
mortally wounded by arrows that had pierced his stomach and shoulder. As
the flames encroached and arrows whizzed by, the party moved to another
building. Fuster dashed over to Jayme’s house...
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Ethnohistory (2013) 60 (4): 537–565.
Published: 01 October 2013
... remains from the site (C. Peterson 2012b; Schwartz and
Green 2011).
The assemblage includes: glass beads; brass, copper, and silver adorn-
ments; brass and iron tools and containers; gun parts, gunflints, and lead
shot; metal arrow points; stone pipes and manufacturing debris; native-
made...
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Ethnohistory (2021) 68 (4): 519–545.
Published: 01 October 2021
... ahead of him, he and two Cheyenne covered their flight. As Elliott’s soldiers approached him, the soldiers killed one of the Cheyenne and began advancing toward the group. Running out of arrows, Trailing the Enemy was handed more by the other Cheyenne. Concentrating on wounding the soldiers’ horses, he...
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Ethnohistory (2024) 71 (2): 249–269.
Published: 01 April 2024
... again enjoy significant influence among the Six Nations. Norton was eventually exiled from the Grand River under pain of death in 1823 for having murdered the Onondaga warrior Big Arrow (Morgan 2017 : 21–27; Benn 2012 : 269–74). During his own lifetime, the controversies surrounding Norton were...
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Ethnohistory (2005) 52 (2): 255–289.
Published: 01 April 2005
... no less menacing. While some open battles did
occur, soldiers more commonly faced the gnawing, unpredictable threat of
an ambush or a single deadly arrow fired from the cover of the trees. For
soldiers no less than for settlers, this sort of opposition discouraged any
reckless movement...
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Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (1): 193–194.
Published: 01 January 2004
... more than it elucidates.
While ‘‘individualism’’ is seen to flourish in the political realm, co-
operative ‘‘tribalism’’ continues to prevail in the now discrete ceremonial/
ritual realm (the latter understoodtoincludepowwowsaswellasSun
Dance and Arrow Renewal ceremonies). Of course, real...
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Ethnohistory (2003) 50 (2): 349–400.
Published: 01 April 2003
... they
have their property. Thus they won it and have settled it. As to how
they won it, the Children of the Sun know how they came bearing
log drums, shields, obsidian-blade clubs, and arrows. It was done joy...
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Ethnohistory (2009) 56 (1): 125–161.
Published: 01 January 2009
... symbolism could
be interpreted as the installation and acceptance of the Catholic religion
by the city. However, the cross is also a decorative element of a chimalli, or
shield, that is accompanied by arrows. According to pre-Hispanic iconog-
raphy, the shield and arrows must be read as “war...
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Ethnohistory (2017) 64 (2): 324–326.
Published: 01 April 2017
... were aided and hindered is demonstrated through photographs and diagrams. It is here that the book does have a problem, albeit one of design rather than content. The black and white photographs are sometimes low contrast and would often benefit from arrows and other indicators of what it is that we...
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