Book
Lower Chinook ethnographic notes
University of Washington • 7 (2) • Published In 1938 • Pages: 29-165
By: Ray, Verne Frederick.
Abstract
This document is a detailed ethnographic study of the Chinook Indians of the Lower Chinook region (lower Columbia River and Willapa Bay in Washington State), with particular emphasis on their material culture. The field work for this study was done in the summers of 1931 and 1936 along with several brief intervening periods following. Much of the information was gathered from the author's two principal informants -- Emma Millet Luscier and Mrs. Bertrand, and further supplemented by the recorded observations and commentaries of James G. Swan, Lewis and Clark, Gabriel Franchere, and the first whites to visit the Chinook around 1792 -- Gray, Boit, and Broughton. Major topics discussed in this work are: social structure (class, rank, slavery), warfare, life cycle events, the guardian spirit complex, diversions (games, gambling, smoking), trade, hunting (land and marine), fishing, foods and food preparation, domestic life, dress and ornament, and mythology.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2004
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2002
- Field Date
- Summers of 1931, 1936
- Coverage Date
- ca. 1850-1936
- Coverage Place
- Lower Chinook region (lower Columbia River and Willapa Bay), Washington State, United States
- Notes
- by Verne F. Ray
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-159)
- LCCN
- 38028386
- LCSH
- Chinook Indians