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Kaska tales
Journal of American folk-lore • 30 • Published In 1917 • Pages: 427-473
By: Teit, James Alexander, Boas, Franz.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Mr. Tiet, an ethnologist, here presents a collection of folk-tales recorded among the Kaska Indians. There is a brief introductory section, identifying the group and their affinities, and various sporadic references to ideas about nature and man. Numerous footnotes have been added, mostly by Franz Boas, which refer the reader to sources on other tribes which possesss folklore elements similar to those which occur in the texts presented here.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Mythology
- Verbal arts
- Hunting and trapping
- Ethnozoology
- Comparative evidence
- Ethnosociology
- Ethnometeorology
- Extramarital sex relations
- Sexual stimulation
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kaska
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- 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
- article
- 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
- James Leary ; 1957; Teferi Abate Adem; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1912, 1915
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1915
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Dease Lake, British Colombia, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- James A. Teit
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17028737
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kaska Indians