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Eyak
Handbook of North American Indians. Northwest Coast • 7 • Published In 1990 • Pages: 189-196
By: De Laguna, Frederica.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document provides a general overview of Eyak culture and society. The discussion draws information from the author's own previously published sources.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Culture summary
- Location
- History
- Annual cycle
- Clans
- Community structure
- Inter-ethnic relations
- External relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Eyak
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2017
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1933
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1792-1985
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- coastal Valdez-Cordova Census Area, and Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Frederica De Laguna
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77017162
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Eyak Indians