essay
Windigo, a Chipewyan story
American Indian life, by several of its students • New York • Published In 1925 • Pages: 325-336
By: Lowie, Robert Harry.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is Lowie's retelling of a Chipewyan tale about the Windigo, a fearsome bush spirit. It is a tale about how a Métis summons the courage to defeat and kill a trader who won his wife in a wrestling competition. The trader is depicted as a paragon among men--big, strong, and savvy--except for a debilitating fear of the Windigo. When the two are alone at a remote campsite, the Métis exploits this one weakness of the trader by telling him a haunting tale about a local Windigo . The trader is incapacitated with fear. The Métis becomes possessed by a Windigo and attacks and kills the trader.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Verbal arts
- Spirits and gods
- 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
- essay
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 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)
- north-central Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert H. Lowie
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chipewyan Indians