Book
Material culture of the Blackfoot Indians
The Trustees • 5 (1) • Published In 1910 • Pages: 1-175, plates
By: Wissler, Clark.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph presents a descriptive survey of the material culture of the Blackfoot, comparing the Peigan, Blood and Northern Blackfoot with each other and with the neighboring Prairie, Plains, Plateau, Shoshone, and occasionally Eastern Algonkian societies. Since Wissler intends 'to present Blackfoot material culture in perspective rather than in isolation' (p. 7) a brief ethnographic summary is included in the introduction. Wissler concludes, on the basis of distributional evidence, that the Blackfoot, though linguistically distinct from other groups in the Missouri-Saskatchewan region, share a large proportion of cultural traits with their neighbors. While the author collected some data on the Blackfoot while in the field, much additional material is taken from historical accounts and comparative material comes from both historical accounts and American Museum collections.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Comparative evidence
- Dwellings
- Weapons
- Culture summary
- Normal garb
- Hunting and trapping
- Food processing
- Ornament
- Utensils
- Food consumption
- Personal grooming
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Blackfoot
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- 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
- Book
- 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
- Sarah T. Bridges ; 1974
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1902-1906
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1800-1905
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern Montana, United States; southern Alberta, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Clark Wissler
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-175)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 11018967
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Siksika Indians