book chapter
The mythology of the Bella Coola Indians
[s.n.] • 2 • Published In 1900 • Pages: 25-50, 114-127 , 6 end plates
By: Boas, Franz.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source presents a resumé of some of the basic Bellacoola myths, including a brief study of native cosmology. In addition to the above, some incidental information may also be found in this source on spirits and gods, the shaman, beliefs about animals, village names and their locations, and the [n]sisau'k'[/n] and [n]ku'siut[/n] societies. The author concludes the source with a theoretical discussion on the development of the mythology of the Bellacoola. Pp. 51-113 of this source, which deal with the individual myths of specific villages rather than with the mythology of the Bellacoola as a whole, have not been processed. Six end plates provide excellent illustrations of the various representative masks used in Bellacoola ceremonials.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cosmology
- Spirits and gods
- Mythology
- Sodalities
- Historical reconstruction
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- Dean Inlet and Bentinck Arm, British Columbia, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Franz Boas
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bella Coola Indians