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John Gerard Witthoft 1921–1993

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References

Bibliography of John Witthoft

Witthoft, John 1946 Some Eastern Cherokee Bird Stories. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 36: 177180.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John The Cherokee Green Corn Medicine and the Green Corn Festival. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 36: 213219. Google Scholar
Witthoft, John Bird Lore of the Eastern Cherokee. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 36: 372384. Google Scholar
Witthoft, John The Grasshopper War in Lenape Land. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 16: 9194. Google Scholar
Witthoft, John Smoothed-base Projectile Points from Eastern Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 16: 123130. Google Scholar
Witthoft, John Cayuga Midwinter Festival. New York Folklore Quarterly, Winter 1946-1947: 2439.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1947 An Early Cherokee Ethnobotanical Note. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 37: 7375.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John Notes on a Cherokee Migration Story. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 37: 304335.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John Some Notable Life-histories in Zoological Folklore (with F. G. Speck). Journal of American Folklore 60: 345349.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1948 Will West Long, Cherokee Informant. American Anthropologist 50: 355359 Google Scholar
Witthoft, John A Bucks County Argillite Cache. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 18: 1314.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1949 Green Corn Ceremonialism in the Eastern Woodlands. Occasional Contributions No. 13. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. An Outline of Pennsylvania Indian History. Pennsylvania History 16(3): 215.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John Stone Pipes of the Historic Cherokees. Southern Indian Studies 1: 4362.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John A Jasper Cache from Chester County Pennsylvania (with Mason, J. A.). Pennsylvania Archaeologist 19: 3336 Google Scholar
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Witthoft, John A Lancaster County Pictograph (with Farver, S. S.). Pennsylvania Archaeologist 19: 7881 Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1950 Frank Gouldsmith Speck, 1881-1950: Ethnologist and Teacher. Southern Indian Studies 2: 1 39-44. The History and Present Status of Pennsylvania Archaeology. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 94: 301307.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John Notes on Pennsylvania Fluted Points. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 20(3-4): 16.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1951 Bibliography of Frank Gouldsmith Speck. American Anthropologist 53: 7587.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John The Pemberton Family Cemetery. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 21: 2132.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John Historic Indian Caverns. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 21: 33—35.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John The Chewed Bullet. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 21: 6061.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John Iroquois Archaeology at the Mid-century. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 95: 311321.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1952 Two Shenk's Ferry Sites in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania (with Farver, S. S.). Pennsylvania Archaeologist 23: 332.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John Grooved Axes of Eastern Pennsylvania (with Miller, J.). Pennsylvania Archaeologist 22: 8194.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John A Paleo-Indian Site in Eastern Pennsylvania: An Early Hunting Culture. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 96: 464—495. (Reprinted in 1971 in Foundations of Pennsylvania Prehistory, edited by Kent, B. C., Smith, I. F. III, and McCann, C., pp. 1364) Comments on the Cultural Position of the Herriot Farm Site. West Virginia History 13: 249253.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1953 The American Indian as Hunter. Pennsylvania Game News 24(2): 1216. 24(3): 16-22. 24(4): 8-13. (Reprinted as Anthropology No. 6, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg) Broad Spearpoints and the Transitional Period Cultures in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 23: 431. (Reprinted in Foundations of Pennsylvania Prehistory, edited by Kent, B. C., Smith, I. R. III, and McCann, C., pp. 161194.) Micmac Pipes, Vase-shaped Pipes, and Calumets (with Schoffand, H. A. Wray, C. F.). Pennsylvania Archaeologist 23: 89107. An Ohio Effigy Pipe. Ohio Archaeologist 3: 1011,13.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John The Grasshopper War Folktale. Journal of American Folklore 66: 295301.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1954 A Brief History of the Indian Hunter. Pennsylvania Game News 25(6): 8—15. 25(7): 39-M). 25(8): 19-23. 25(9): 41^6. (Reprinted as Anthropology No. 8, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg) Pottery from the Stewart Site, Clinton County, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 24: 2229.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John A Note on Fluted Point Relationships. American Antiquity 19: 271273.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1955 Worn Stone Tools from Southeastern Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 25: 1631. The Seventeenth Century Origins of the Shawnee (with Hunter, W. A.). Ethnohistory 2: 4257.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1956 The Art of Flint Chipping. Ohio Archaeologist 6: 136142. The Art of Flint Chipping. Ohio Archaeologist 7: 17r20, 35, 42-45, 80-88, 92. An Ohio Artifact from Muncy. Now and Then 11: 141146. Muncy, Pennsylvania. In Defense of Surface Hunting. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 26: 514.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1957 Paperbacks, Monographs, and Digressions. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 27: 522.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1958 Indian Methods of Skin Dressing and Tanning. Ohio Archaeologist 8: 9499. Some Sources of Uncertainty in Radio-carbon Dating. Bulletin (New York State Archaeological Association) 12: 14.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1959 Ancestry of the Susquehannocks. In Susquehannock Miscellany, edited by Kinsey, W F. and Witthoft, J., pp. 1960. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg. Susquehannock Shaft Polishers and the Indian Sundial. In Susquehannock Miscellany, pp. 120125. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg. Notes on the Archaic of the Appalachian Region. American Antiquity 25: 7985.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1971 in Foundations of Pennsylvania Prehistory, edited by Kent, B. C., Smith, I. F. III, and McCann, C., pp. 97108.) Notes on an Indian Burial from North-central Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 29: 4048.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1960 Of Forgeries and Fantasies. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 30: 117.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1961 Notes on the Archaic Cultures of the Appalachian Mountain Region. Bulletin (New York State Archaeological Association) 21: 715.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1962 Comment. In The Paleo-Indian Tradition in Eastern North America, by R. J. Mason. Current Anthropology 3: 267270.Google Scholar
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Witthoft, John 1966 Cayuga Origin Myth. In The Great Tree and the Longhouse: The Culture of the Iroquois, by Hertzberg, H. W., pp. 1219. Macmillan, New York.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John Archaeology as a Key to the Colonial Fur Trade. Minnesota History 40(4): 203-209. A History of Gunflints. Pennsylvania Archaeologist 36: 1249. Glazed Polish on Flint Tools. American Antiquity 32: 383388.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1967 Petrographic Studies: Lateritic Flints. MASCA Newsletter 3(1): 3—4. Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology, Philadelphia. Stone Spheres and Hammers. Maryland Archaeologist 2: 410.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1968 Flint Arrowpoints from the Eskimo of Northwestern Alaska. Expedition 10(2): 3037.Google Scholar
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Witthoft, John 1971 Pottery from the Stewart Site. In Foundations of Pennsylvania Prehistory, edited by Kent, B. C., Smith, I. F., and McCann, C., pp. 467^476. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg. Two Shenk's Ferry Sites in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania (with Farver, S. S.). In Foundations of Pennsylvania Prehistory, edited by Kent, B. C., Smith, I. F., and McCann, C., pp. 425^166. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1972 Section on Beads of the G. W. Smith Collection. In Surface Archaeology of SW Washo County, Nevada: The G. W. Smith Collection, by Aikens, C. M.. Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1974 The Mechanics of Conchoidal Fracture: A Bibliographic Note. Newsletter of Lithic Technology 3: 4053. Pullman, Washington. Bushwhackers and Melungeons: Indian Remnant Groups or Libels? Keystone Folklore 19: 183205.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1975 Lenape Indian Fall Harvest (with Freeman- Witthoft, B.). Frontiers (fall issue): 912. Philadelphia.Google Scholar
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Witthoft, John 1978 Robert Lowie. Dictionary of American Biography. Scribner's Sons, New York.Google Scholar
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Witthoft, John 1981 Edith Hamilton. Dictionary of American Biography. Supplement 7. Scribner's Sons, New York.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1984 Comparison of Delaware and Susquehannock Settlement Patterns. In The Lenape Indian, A Symposium, edited by Kraft, H. C.. Publication No. 7, Archaeological Research Center. Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey.Google Scholar
Witthoft, John 1991 Frank Speck: The Formative Years. In The Life and Times of Frank G. Speck 1881-1950, edited by Blankenship, R., pp. 18. Publications in Anthropology No. 4. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.Google Scholar
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