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Games of the Makah Indians of Neah Bay
American antiquarian and oriental journal • 23 • Published In 1901 • Pages: 69-73
By: Dorsey, George Amos.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article describes many of the games played by the Makah. Dorsey collected the information from Charlie Williams, a native Makah, whom he met while on a collecting trip for the Field Columbian Museum in 1900. Dorsey was a well-known Americanist who specialized in the Indians of the North American Plains.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Games
- Athletic sports
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Nuu-chah-nulth
- 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
- 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
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1960: John Beierle; 2010
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1900
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Makah Indians, Neah Bay, Washington State, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by George A. Dorsey
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 05027178
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nootka Indians
- Nuu-chah-nulth Indians