The Year the Stars Fell
Gewicht:
1139 g
Format:
258x214x34 mm
Beschreibung:
Candace S. Greene is an ethnologist in the Anthropology Collections and Archives program at the Smithsonian Institution and author of Silver Horn: Master Illustrator of the Kiowa. Russell Thornton, a registered member of the Cherokee Nation, is a distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of California-Los Angeles and author of The Cherokees: A Population History (Nebraska 1990).
The widespread Lakota, or Western Sioux, recorded many different events in their winter counts, but all include 'the year the stars fell', the spectacular Leonid meteor shower of 1833-34. This work offers information on the important collection of Lakota winter counts at the Smithsonian, a core resource for the study of Lakota history and culture.