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Skinner, Alanson
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Spier, Leslie
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Wildschut, William
1925a. The Crow Skull Medicine Bundle. Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Indian Notes, Vol. 2. No. 2. New York. 1925b .Crow Love Medicine. Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Indian Notes, Vol. 2. No. 3. New York.
178 CROW INDIAN MEDICINE BUNDLES
1925c. A Crow Shield. Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foun- dation, Indian Notes, Vol. 2. No. 4. New York.
1926a. Crow Sun-dance Bundle. Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Indian Notes, Vol. 3. No. 2. New York.
1926b. Moccasin-bundle of the Crows. Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Indian Notes, Vol. 3. No. 3. New York.
1926c. Crow War Bundle of Two Leggings. Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Indian Notes, Vol. 3. No. 4. New York.
Wildschut, William, and Ewers, John, C.
1959- Crow Indian Beadwork: A Descriptive and Historical Study. Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, Contributions, Vol. 16. New York.
Wissler, Clark
1905. The Whirlwind and the Elk in the Mythology of the Dakota.
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Natural History, Anthropological Papers, Vol. i. Part 2. New York. 1912. Ceremonial Bundles of the Blackfoot Indians. American Museum
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York.
Wormington, H. M.
1955. A Reappraisal of the Fremont Culture. Proceedings, Denver Museum of Natural History. No. i. Denver.
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54. LOVE MEDICINE FLUTES top: cat. no. 15/3268. LENGTH, 40 IN.
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