Word: crowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...composers from the 9th Century (Notker Balbulus) to the 18th (Gretry), but the busiest person at a concert given last week in Deep River, Conn. was an earnest lady in a brown evening dress named Lotta Van Buren. She delivered explanatory remarks. She plucked twangy notes with a crow's quill on a monochord. She strummed on a psaltery which looks like a large, shallow cigar-box with strings. Standing up, she tinkled on an octavina. Sitting down, she bowed away on a viol, played a virginal. She blew into a black wind instrument called a recorder. Lotta...
Ethnologist Lowie found that the Crow adhered quite strictly to their own curious codes. Although they held to the ideal of monogamy, faithful and austere wives and husbands were respected rather than imitated. A man automatically took possession of his wife's younger sisters if he wanted them. But he could not speak to his mother-in-law, nor could she speak to him. While adultery was sometimes punished, it involved no disgrace, and it was considered beneath a brave's dignity to show jealousy. For two weeks each year the Crow engaged in a curious custom...
...Crow never whipped their children, punished them by holding them down and pouring water up their noses. Little Crow boys played at being warriors and hunters, shot at targets, went on mock hunts of pet buffalo calves. One of their games was to throw stones into the water, crying "icbirikyū' bābirikyū'p" so that the last syllable coincided exactly with the splash. Little Crow girls played house, enjoyed the women's game of shinny. Dice was also considered a woman's game. Gray- bull spoke of squaws who were always shooting dice...
Although Ethnologist Lowie writes for plain readers, avoids the technicalities of advanced ethnology, laymen are likely to find his conclusions too cautious, may be irritated by the qualifications and exceptions he notes to the general patterns of Crow behavior. That even primitive society was complex, dense, marked with restrictions and taboos, is plain from The Crow Indians, and readers who follow Ethnologist Lowie's account of his difficulties with native language and customs are likely to be made permanently skeptical of most popular accounts of life among the Indians. Where more superficial observers, for example, might be content...
...American Museum of Natural History in 1913. A member of the staff of the American Anthropologist from 1912 to 1933, he served as its editor for nine years, has been professor of anthropology at the University of California since 1925. Of his twelve published volumes, five deal with the Crow Indians. Married two years ago, he now lives in Berkeley, Calif...