A Preliminary Study of The Pueblo of Taos New Mexico [SOLD]

A Preliminary Study of The Pueblo of Taos New Mexico

By Merton Leland Miller

The University of Chicago Press, 1898

Reprint version by AMS Press, New York 1976

Hardback, 48 numbered pages, photographs

A dissertation submitted to the faculties of the Graduate Schools of Arts, Literature, and Science, in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

CONTENTS

Taos Valley

Discovery of Taos by the Spaniards

Houses now occupied at Taos not those in use when discovered

Resistance offered to the Spaniards

Linguistic relations of the Pueblos of New Mexico

Origins of Taos people

Numbers of the Pueblo Indians

Land tenure

Location of Taos

Irrigation

Houses

Ovens

Produce and mode of agriculture

Plows

Harvesting

Hunting

Work of the women

Kivas, form, use, location and number

Dress

Hair dressing

Civil Organization

Clans

Marriage

Mode of reckoning time

Seasons

Communal work

Communal hunts

Language

Personal names

People at Taos from other Pueblos

Religion

Force of custom among Indians

Difficulties in learning Indian traditions

Myths and traditions