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The E-Unoto ceremony of the Masai
Man • 63 • Published In 1963 • Pages: 107A-B, 108A-B, 109A-B
By: Hamilton, Lord Claud.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
These notes describe the E-Unoto ceremony of the Maasai which is a recurrent part of the age-grade institution and marks the transition of the junior warriors to the status of senior warriors. Lord Hamilton apparently was an eye-witness to the four-day ceremony and records the dances and activities involved.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gender status
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Maasai
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Soldier
- Traveler
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Amal Vinogradov ; 1965
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- June 10-13, 1959
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- June 10-13. 1959
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Entasekera, Narok county, Kenya
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Lord Claud Hamilton
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sf 80000548
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Masai (African people)