book chapter
Throwing-sticks in the National Museum
Annual report of the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution showing the operations, expenditures, and conditions of the Institution for the year 1884 • (2) • Published In 1885 • Pages: 279-289
By: Mason, Otis Tufton.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
A comparative study of throwing-sticks based on specimens in the National Museum. Only a description and illustration of an Aleut throwing board is included.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Weapons
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 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
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- unspecified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Unalaska and Kodiak Islands, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Otis T. Mason
- This document consists of excerpts
- Descriptive letterpress on verso of each plate except the last
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 14019240
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aleuts