Ojibwe materials, Paul Radin papers
Culture:
Ojibwe includes: Ojibwa, Chippewa, Ojibway
Odawa includes: Ottawa
Anishinaabe includes: Anishinaabeg, Anishinabe, Nishnaabe, Anishinabek
Date: Undated
Contributor: Radin, Paul, 1883-1959 | Pontiac, Jim
Subject: Anthropology | Medicine | Religion | Social life and customs | Folklore | Dance | Witchcraft | Migrations | Warfare | Personal names | Clans | Rites and ceremonies
Type: Text
Genre: Essays | Interviews | Stories
Extent: 3 items
Description: Materials relating to Radin's study of Ojibwe culture and history. Includes a discussion of the origin and spread of the medicine dance; notes from informants and excerpted from published sources: clan names and religion, ceremonial organization, magical rites, magic and witchcraft, war customs, migration tale of the Mississauga, naming and names, lists of personal names with 4 pages, outline of monograph; two outlines for works on Odawa culture and a comparative and contrastive discussion of "The Two Boys" and "Twin Myth"; text of an interview with Jim Pontiac including the description of thirty-two Ojibwe villages of the Upper Peninsula in English or French and Ojibwe; etc.
Collection: Paul Radin papers Mss.497.3.R114