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Third report on the Indians of British Columbia
Report of the sixty-first meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held at Cardiff in August 1891 • London • Published In 1892 • Pages: 408-449
By: Boas, Franz.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work presents a general summary of Bellacoola society as it existed in the latter part of the 19th century. Data presented pertain to: names and locations of settlements, Bellacoola 'gentes' and their totems, secret societies and the potlatch, customs regarding birth, puberty, marriage and death, religion and shamanism, warfare and medicine. Information on material culture is generally lacking in this work, but several examples of Bellacoola representative art as exemplified in the dance masks of the secret societies are illustrated in the text.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Clans
- Sodalities
- Representative art
- Dwellings
- Mythology
- Spirits and gods
- Accumulation of wealth
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mourning
- Warfare
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Nuxalk
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1964-1965: John Beierle; 2010
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1886-ca. 1890
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1886-ca. 1890
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Bella Coola, British Columbia, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Dr. Franz Boas
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bella Coola Indians