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Creator:: Sandeno, Robin M.
Abstract:: Many authorities state that the development of macabre images were a result of the plague that first swept through western Europe 1347-1350. However, many aspects of the macabre were already in place prior to the plague. A more realistic explanation for the macabre is in the modification of religious belief,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , The Birth of Purgatory, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1981), 231

Creator:: Hagerty, Dorothy Dean
Abstract:: The research examines the reasons for and value of both deliberate and amorphous mutual-aid societies that influenced the life and success of an individual who lived in seventeenth-century Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Information is developed to allow a contextual comparison of life in both areas. The mutual-aid...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: wish to thank Dr. Thomas C. Hogg, Professor of Anthropology, and Dr. Paul E. Kopperman, Assistant

Creator:: Mauze, Marie-France
Abstract:: The antiquity of the Northwest Coast Indian pole is the subject of a great deal of controversy. A few viewpoints referring to that topic are given. The symbolic value of the Kwakiutl totem pole is examined with respect to art, style and culture; more generally "primitive" art is considered as...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: deterioration by the weather. According to E. Keithan in Monuments of Cedar, it is almost impossible to rely

Creator:: Stoltz, Arleyn Winifred
Abstract:: Pottery manufacture analysis, an aspect of experimental archeology, is developed and used to compare and test through experimental reconstruction, data on pottery from the Altamont region (southern Alberta, Canada and northcentral Montana, U.S.). The analysis uses major variables of (1) manufacturing process and (2) product characteristics to formulate models of...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Complex 98 Appendix D, Ethnographic Accounts 100 Appendix E, Materials Used in Experiments 103 Clays 103

Creator:: Michael, Elva Olson
Abstract:: Prior to advent of Europeans in the Pacific Northwest, the Middle Columbia River Basin was the location of highly developed native cultures. For centuries it was the center of very important native trade networks that extended over western North America and a site of important intertribal rituals relating to renewal...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: brochure on dams of the Pacific Northwest Region 19 e. Determination of other appropriate

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