THE MYSTIC WARRIORS OF THE PLAINS [SOLD]

THE MYSTIC WARRIORS OF THE PLAINS

by Thomas E. Mails

Publisher: Mallard Press, New York

Hardcover, slip jacket, first United States edition, 1991, 618 pages

Illustrated in color and black and white photographs and drawings

Contents

Chapter 1. Origin, Distribution, and Nature of the People of the Plains

Chapter 2. Manner of Daily Life

Chapter 3.  Social Customs

Chapter 4. Personal Qualities

Chapter 5. Form of Government

Chapter 6. Religion—Supernatural Beliefs

Chapter 7. Religion—The Practices of Medicine

Chapter 8. Religion—Visions and Personal Power

Chapter 9. Religion—Purification

Chapter 10. Religion—Thanksgiving

Chapter 11. Religion—Death and the Life After

Chapter 12. The Buffalo and the Horse

Chapter 13. An Overview of Arts and Craft

Chapter 14. Painting

Chapter 15. Quillwork and Beadwork

Chapter 16. Achievement Marks

Chapter 17. Clothing

Chapter 18. Hair Styles, Jewelry, and Headdresses

Chapter 19. Bows, Arrows, and Quivers

Chapter 20. Lances, Knives, Clubs, Hatchets, and Guns

Chapter 21. Shields

Chapter 22. The Birth and Training of the Boy

Chapter 23. The Mature Warrior on the Field of Action

Chapter 24. The Redistribution and Decline of the People of the Plains

From the Jacket

In the years since its first publication, Mystic Warriors of the Plains has become a classic book, avidly sought after by collectors, readers, and the growing audience for information on the Plains tribes.  Here, in a new edition of this treasured, definitive volume, are the Plainsmen, the most colorful and intriguing of all the Native Americans, as they were before the white man built fences and railroads and towns—and reservations.  In words, in 32 color illustrations, and in nearly 1,000 detailed drawings, Thomas E. Mails has created a haunting evocation of the life and times of an industrious, sensitive, and contented people.