book chapter
Stories, myths and superstitions of Fox Island Aleut children
Journal of American folk-lore • 60 • Published In 1947 • Pages: 62-72
By: Ransom, Jay Ellis.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author, who was a school teacher at Nikolski Village, Umnak Island, presents here 31 compositions by Aleut school children, with footnote annotations. The compositions are all included in category 539. In using these stories it must be remembered that they contain traditional and fabricated elements. Although Mr. Ransom lived with the Aleuts, he is not considered a reliable observer—partly because his command of the language was poor.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Literary texts
- Verbal arts
- Spirits and gods
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aleut
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2007
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Foreign Resident
- 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.
- 2: Fair
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Leila S. Small ; 1950-1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1936-1937
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1936-1937
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nikolski, Umnak Island, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jay Ellis Ransom
- This document consists of excerpts
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17028737
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aleuts