book chapter
Eskimo string figures
F.A. Acland • XIII • Published In 1924 • Pages: 192
By: Jenness, Diamond.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a comparative study of string figures collected from a number of Inuit groups. Drawings and text for a representative group of figures which occur among the Copper Inuit have been reproduced in the files. For additional examples from the Copper Inuit and other Inuit groups the original work should be consulted.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Games
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Copper Inuit
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- 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 chapter
- 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
- AW ; 1950-1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1913-1916
- 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)
- Northwest Territories, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Diamond Jenness
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Copper Eskimos