Word: tribalization
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...depositors dividends of 35% and 20% respectively (in addition to 5% previously). The distribution amounted to $53,000,000. Small depositors received checks by mail, others called for theirs. Among the depositors were some 5,000 wandering gypsies who in the boom days of 1929 made Union Trust their tribal depository. The gypsies, not understanding the convenience of checks, were taken directly to the bank's underground vaults, paid in cash...
...Lone Wolf Tribe (Wrigley's Chewing Gum). An Indian powwow, opening with lugubrious war-whoops which listening children mimic. Gifts to be obtained for chewing gum wrappers: a pin, a book of tribal secrets, Indian regalia...
...Stirling, Smithsonian ethnologist, told Washington's Anthropological Society last week. He spent eight weeks with the head-hunting Jivaros, "a simple, rather kindly people," who notify their enemies of intended raids. The "victims" at once dig pitfalls and set trap guns along forest paths, post watchdogs around their tribal house, hide indoors with their women and children until the attack begins...
...laid north of Point Barrow, Alaska. Chee-Ak comes courting Kyatuk as winter seems to break. The sanguine tribesmen have a food orgy. They are stupefied with blubber when winter suddenly closes in again. As the polar storm screams monotonously Chee-Ak suggests that they starve afoot. According to tribal routine they seal the aged into their igloos to die. Kyatuk's father is so left but Kyatuk protests. Chee-Ak backs her up. The tribe's offended gods dog the march with bad luck, nearly crushing them all in the polar icepack, until Kyatuk's father...
Films used in Professor Dixon's course on Oceanica depict the intimate lives and habits of the Polynesians, Melanesians, and inhabitants of the East Indies. Tribal dances and customs such as fire walking in the Fiji Islands, and tatooing and tapa making in Samoa, are shown in detail...