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Chilkat houses
Museum journal • 4 • Published In 1913 • Pages: 81-100
By: Shotridge, Louis, Shotridge, Florence.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article was written by an assistant in the University of Pennsylvania Museum and his wife, both of whom were full-blooded Tlingit Indians. Louis Shotridge's father was head chief of the Raven side in Chilkat. The article contains descriptions and plans of Chilkat dwelling houses and food-preparing houses, a summary description of Chilkat social organization, a description of house posts and screens with heraldry, and the totem legend of the Kagwantans clan of the Tlingit. A chart of Chilkat social organization is appended.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Dwellings
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- 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
- Timothy J. O'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)
- Chilkat, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Louis and Florence Shotridge
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sn84046272
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tlingit Indians