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The Haidas of British Columbia
Our primitive contemporaries • New York • Published In 1934 • Pages: 221-263
By: Murdock, George Peter.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This encyclopedic chapter about the Haida mainly covers topics of social and political organization, warfare, feasting, life-cycle events, and religion.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gift giving
- Visual arts
- Status, role, and prestige
- Accumulation of wealth
- Visiting and hospitality
- Geography
- Moieties
- Community heads
- Warfare
- 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
- 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
- Ian Skoggard; 2016
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1932
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1875-1932
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- By George Peter Murdock
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-263)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 34002549
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Haida Indians