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    Omaha Dwellings, Furniture and Implements Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 263-288
    Omaha Dwellings, Furniture and Implements Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 263-288
    Omaha Dwellings, Furniture and Implements Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 263-288
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    Omaha Dwellings, Furniture and Implements Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 263-288

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      Title: Omaha Dwellings, Furniture and Implements

      Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American

      Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

      1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896

      pages 263-288

      Author: James Owen Dorsey,

      Release Date: November 24, 2006 [EBook #19913]

      Language: English

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      OMAHA DWELLINGS, FURNITURE, AND IMPLEMENTS

      BY

      JAMES OWEN DORSEY

      CONTENTS

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      OMAHA DWELLINGS, FURNITURE, AND IMPLEMENTS

      BY JAMES OWEN DORSEY

      INTRODUCTORY NOTE.

      The accompanying paper is one of the results of personal investigations among the Omaha of Nebraska and cognate tribes of Indians, beginning in 1878 and continued from time to time during late years.

      While the paper treats of the Omaha tribe, much that is said is applicable to the Ponka, as the two tribes have long had similar environments and a common dialect, for, until 1877, their habitats were almost contiguous, and since 1880 about one-third of the Ponka tribe has been dwelling on its former reservation near the town of Niobrara, Nebraska.

      Acknowledgments are due Dr. O. T. Mason for many valuable suggestions early in the progress of the work.

      DWELLINGS.

      The primitive domiciles of the Omaha were chiefly (1) lodges of earth or, more rarely, of bark or mats, and (2) skin lodges or tents. It may be observed that there were no sacred rites connected with the earth lodge-building or tent-making among the

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