article
The life of a Chilkat Indian girl
Museum journal • 4 • Published In 1913 • Pages: 101-103
By: Shotridge, Florence.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article, by a full-blooded Chilkat of the Hlukahade clan, is a synthetic sketch of the growing up of a Chilkat girl, based upon her own experiences. Shotridge concentrates on the puberty ceremonies, and the manners of a well bred young girl. A model of the central part of the Chilkat village at Klukwan, Alaska, is appended.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- 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
- ca. 1900
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Chilkat; Klukwan, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Florence Shotridge
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sn84046272
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tlingit Indians