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A Girl's puberty ceremony among the Nootka Indians
Proceedings and transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, third series, • 7 • Published In 1913 • Pages: 67-80
By: Sapir, Edward.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is the description of a girl's puberty ceremony and accompanying potlatch which Sapir observed in October 1910 at Alberni, British Columbia. Most of the article is taken up with a running account of the events during the potlatch, while the final section details some of the observances which a girl must undertake at the time of her first menstruation.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Puberty and initiation
- Gift giving
- Games
- Music
- 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
- 1910-1912
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- October 1910
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Alberni, British Columbia, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Edward Sapir
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nootka Indians
- Nuu-chah-nulth Indians