Excerpt from Anthropological Papers, Vol. 4 In the summer of 19071 spent about seven weeks among the Stoney Assiniboine of Morley, Alberta, as part Of a iviuseum expedition to the Northern Plains. Though very much Of the ancient life had become com pletely effaced under the influence of missionary teaching, I was able to collect a reasonably large body of mythological material. On my return from a trip to the Chipewyan in the following year, it was deemed advisable to spend the month Of August among the Assiniboine at Ft, Belknap, Mon tana, in order to enlarge the inadequate conception Of Assiniboine ethnology Obtained from their Canadian kinsmen. Beyond ascertaining the essential similarity of the folk-lore Of the two sections, relatively little attention was given to mythology in 1908, the main Object being to secure notes on social and ceremonial organization. TO these is prefixed a necessarily brief account of the history and material culture of the tribe, largely reconstructed from the records of older writers. While a longer stay would have helped to fill up many lacunae, especially in the treatment Of games, of the sun dance and the horse-dance, it is hoped that even the imperfect account here given will be useful as a contribution to the comparative study Of the North ern Plains Indians. The values Of letters employed to render Assiniboine sounds are given in the following table. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.