Book
Contributions to Chipewyan ethnology
Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag • 6 (3) • Published In 1930 • Pages: 115
By: Birket-Smith, Kaj.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a traditional ethnography of the Chipewyan Indians through the first quarter of the 20th century. Although heavy emphasis in this work is on material culture, there is also much data on foods and the food quest, relations with other tribes, settlement patterns, geography, social organization, amusements, religious beliefs and mythological tales, and the cultural position of the Chipewyan in reference to Eskimo and other Boreal Woodland societies (discussed in large part in terms of cultural element distributions). The information presented here -- particularly in terms of hunting, fishing, trapping, and clothing and clothing manufacture -- is very detailed.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Comparative evidence
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Hunting and trapping
- Fishing
- Work in skins
- Dwellings
- General tools
- Utensils
- Locomotion
- Animal transport
- Vehicles
- Games
- Music
- Literary texts
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chipewyans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1989-1991
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1923
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1900-1925
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Churchill, Manitoba ; Reindeer Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Kaj Birket-Smith
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-113)
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chipewyan Indians