Book
Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Indians
National Museums of Canada • (19) • Published In 1974 • Pages: iii, 138
By: Hellson, John C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph describes the use of nearly 100 botanical species in Blackfoot Indian culture. The authors' classification of plants has the merit of taxonomical exactness and yet is presented from a Blackfoot point of view which stresses the application rather than systemization of botanical knowledge. It is thus an indispensable guide, best consulted along with other, more ethnographically detailed sources, to plants as used in Blackfoot religion and ceremony, birth control, medicine, horse medicine, diet, crafts, and folklore. The researcher is alerted to numerous typographical and spelling errors in this source, including terms of Linnean binomial nomenclature.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ethnobotany
- Pharmaceuticals
- Conception
- Sacred objects and places
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Natural Scientist
- 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
- M. A. Marcus ; J. Beierle ; 1982
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1970-1973
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Alberta, Canada; Montana, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- John C. Hellson
- Abstract in French
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-129)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75331774
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Siksika Indians