Book
The Thlinkets of southeastern Alaska
Stone and Kimball • Chicago • Published In 1896 • Pages:
By: Knapp, Frances, Dorr, Rheta Childe.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This consists primarily of original data gathered by the authors, one of whom resided for three years in the government house at Sitka. Data are given on village life, warfare, potlatches, witchcraft and shamanism, and folk-lore. Particularly good descriptions are given throughout the work of the various aspects of the life cycle: birth and child care, puberty, marriage ceremonies, and funerals. The book is valuable for its continuity, and for the descriptive details that help to fill out the sometimes stark descriptions contained in the writings of others on the Tlingit.
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tlingit
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- 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
- James Leary ; 1958
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southeastern Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Frances Knapp and Rheta Louise Childe
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 02016462
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tlingit Indians