Book
Chipewyan tales
Published by order of the Trustees • 10 (3) • Published In 1912 • Pages: 169-200 [pages 173, 176, 177, 180, 181, 184, 185, not legible]
By: Lowie, Robert Harry.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document presents sample of Chipewyan tales collected by Robert H. Lowie probably in the early twentieth century. Several of the tales between pages 173-185 are fragmentary in nature because of a number of illegible pages contained in the original text.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Mythology
- Texts translated into english
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- 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)
- northern Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Robert H. Lowie
- Introduction; Crow-head; Spread-wings; Betsuné-yenécan; The man in the moon; The sun catcher; The crow; Ede'khuwè; The snow-man; The trip to the sky; The adulteress; The giants; The magical trees; The origin of a sand -hill; Marten-axe; Adventures of two boys; The stolen women; The bear and the man; Wisáketcak
- Original pages 173, 176, 177, 180, 181, 184, 185 are not legible
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 15003017
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chipewyan Indians