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Vancouver Island Indians
Encyclopædia of religion and ethics, edited by James Hastings • 12 • Published In 1922 • Pages: 591-595
By: Sapir, Edward.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This brief article is a summary of Nootka religion, based mainly on material in Sapir's field notes, with some additions from the work of Boas. In the course of the article, he discusses supernatural beings, prayer, acquisition of power and secret rituals, shamanism, soul beliefs and supernatural phenomena, and rituals. Sapir was a well-known linguist and ethnologist.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Spirits and gods
- Identification
- Sacred objects and places
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Animism
- Difficult and unusual births
- Organized ceremonial
- Magical and mental therapy
- 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
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary 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
- ca. 1910
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1910
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Edward Sapir
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 34009086
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nootka Indians
- Nuu-chah-nulth Indians