Description
To understand the aboriginal roots of lacrosse, one must enter a world of spiritual belief and magic where players sewed inchworms into the innards of lacrosse balls and medicine men gazed at miniature lacrosse sticks to predict future events, where bits of bat wings were twisted into the stick's netting, and where famous players were-and are still-buried with their sticks. Here Thomas Vennum brings this world to life.
Author: Thomas Jr. Vennum
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 11/28/2007
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 9.87h x 7.03w x 0.91d
ISBN13: 9780801887642
ISBN10: 080188764X
BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Lacrosse
- History | United States | General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Native American Studies
Author: Thomas Jr. Vennum
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 11/28/2007
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.72lbs
Size: 9.87h x 7.03w x 0.91d
ISBN13: 9780801887642
ISBN10: 080188764X
BISAC Categories:
- Sports & Recreation | Lacrosse
- History | United States | General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Native American Studies
About the Author
Thomas Vennum, senior ethnomusicologist emeritus at the Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., is the author of Lacrosse Legends of the First Americans. Retired and living in Tucson, Arizona, he continues research among Indian tribes in Sonora, Mexico, specifically the Seri.