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Makah
Handbook of North American Indians. Northeast • 7 • Published In 1990 • Pages: 422-430
By: Renker, Ann M., Gunther, Erna.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The Makah are the people of the area around Cape Flattery at the northwestern tip of the Olympic Peninsula in the state of Washington. This paper, based on secondary source material, describes their traditional culture including data on villages, environment, external relations, social organization, ceremonies, subsistence patterns, house types, canoes, technology, and history.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Geography
- Cultural participation
- Status, role, and prestige
- Marine hunting
- Fishing
- Diet
- Visual arts
- Boats
- Cultural revitalization and ethnogenesis
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1788-1984
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cape Flattery area, Washington State, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ann M. Renker and Erna Gunther
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77017162
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nootka Indians
- Nuu-chah-nulth Indians