Book
Contributions to the ethnology of the Haida
Memoir of the American Museum of Natural History, New York • VIII (1) • Published In 1905 • Pages: iii, 300
By: Swanton, John Reed.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This account of the author's ten months among the Haida as part of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition is, altogether, a thorough account of the culture at the time. The main subjects discussed are history, religion, social organization, and language. Medicine, life cycle events, war, hunting and fishing, games, feasts, art, and settlements receive relatively brief coverage. A substantial part of the book is dedicated to transcriptions of stories and myths.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Visual arts
- Lineages
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Medical therapy
- Life and death
- Cosmology
- Mythology
- Eschatology
- Spirits and gods
- Revelation and divination
- Magic
- Ethnometeorology
- Ethnogeography
- Ethnozoology
- Ethnopsychology
- Puberty and initiation
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Haida
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2017
- 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
- 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
- Ian Skoggard; 2016
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1900-1901
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1901
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Graham Island, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- By John R. Swanton
- Cover title: The Haida of Queen Charlotte's Islands ; Reprint from vol. V, part 1 of the Jessup North Pacific Expedition
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 14012394
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Haida Indians