Ethnology | North American Languages

A Ponka Ghost Story

1. September 20155. September 2015 s.

A Ponca story told by the Omaha Indian Frank La Flèsche to James Owen Dorsey, published in 1890. The text is transcribed in Ponca using the Omaha-Ponca notation, interleaved with Dorsey’s English gloss. There is also a natural English translation of the story provided.

North Eurasian animal bones preservation rites

30. August 20156. May 2019 s.

A common traditional practice among northern Siberian, but also northern European and even some Northern American peoples is the preservation of animal bones of game animals.