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Notes on the material culture of the Assiniboine Indians
Ethnos • 25 (1-2) • Published In 1960 • Pages: 44-62
By: Dusenberry, Verne.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Altogether 17 bands of Assiniboine roamed the Great Plains as far south as the Yellowstone River in Montana and as far north as the Athabasca River in Canada. Not much has been published on them. By the 1930s, their traditional way of life was gone. According to Dusenberry, the Assiniboine are named after the technique they employed for boiling water, placing hot stones into a water-filled hole lined with buffalo skins. Dusenberry also describes how the Assiniboine made bows, arrows, knives, glue, spears, war clubs, pipes, and spoons, and the tipi.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- Animal by-products
- Woodworking
- Lithic industries
- Weapons
- General tools
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Assiniboine
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Plains and Plateau
- 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.
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1960
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1851-1960
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Fort Peck and Belknap Reservations, Montana, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Verne Dusenberry
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 45053696
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Assiniboine Indians