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Deer Hides and Tribal Confederacies: An Appraisal of Gramly's Hypothesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Gary S. Webster
Gary S. Webster*
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Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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Abstract

Two of Gramly's (1977) assumptions, aboriginal deer density and a hunting orientation among the Huron aimed at procuring deerskins, are evaluated using ethnohistorical data. An alternate hypothesis concerning the relationship between a Huron tribal confederacy and deer hunting is then offered.

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American Antiquity , Volume 44 , Issue 4 , October 1979 , pp. 816 - 820
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1979

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