book chapter
Myths and traditions from northern Alaska, the Mackenzie Delta, and Coronation Gulf
F.A. Acland • XIII • Published In 1924 • Pages: 90
By: Jenness, Diamond.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The first part of this work consists of thirteen texts of Inuit folk tales with interlinear English translations. The second part consists of English versions of eighty-one Inuit myths and folktales. The editor's introduction and selected tales have been reproduced.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Literary texts
- Mythology
- 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