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Field notes on the Tahltan and Kaska Indians: 1912-15
Anthropologica • (3) • Published In 1956 • Pages: 39-171
By: Teit, James Alexander, Helm, June.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article was edited and put together by J. H. MacNeish, from the notes of Teit, an ethnologist who worked for the Tahltan tribal council for several years. The article contains much descriptive information on habitat, clothing, ornament, tranportation, and the life cycle of the group. Most of the material in the article refers to the Tahltan Indians, rather than the Kaska. Included is information from informants and reference to collections ranging back to the early nineteenth century, with National Museum Numbers in the text corresponding to numbered items in the end plates.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Normal garb
- Clothing manufacture
- Puberty and initiation
- Sexual stimulation
- Difficult and unusual births
- Infant care
- Infant feeding
- Techniques of socialization
- Ornament
- Revelation and divination
- Sacred objects and places
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Mode of marriage
- Menstruation
- Diet
- 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
- 1834-1915
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern British Columbia, southeastern Yukon Territory, and southwestern Northwest Territories, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- James A. Teit
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 171)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 56004160
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kaska Indians