Book
Ethnography of the Kutenai
American Anthropological Association • (56) • Published In 1941 • Pages: 202
By: Turney-High, Harry Holbert.
Abstract
This major ethnography is based largely on interviews with eighteen Kutenai informants. The wide range of topics considered include: life cycle events, kinship, political organization, warfare, religion, arts, subsistence, housing, transportation, technology, and dress and ornaments.
- Subjects
- Identification
- Location
- Topography and geology
- Fauna
- Flora
- Traditional history
- Fowling
- Hunting and trapping
- Fishing gear
- Domesticated animals
- Dwellings
- Diet
- Work in skins
- Cordage
- Mats and basketry
- Normal garb
- Ceramic technology
- Settlement patterns
- Weapons
- Utensils
- Animal transport
- Boats
- Daily routine
- Athletic sports
- Music
- Personal names
- Sodalities
- Arranging a marriage
- Kinship terminology
- Community heads
- Local officials
- Public welfare
- Sex and marital offenses
- Warfare
- Revelation and divination
- Ordering of time
- Ethnometeorology
- Childbirth
- Transmission of cultural norms
- culture
- Kutenai
- HRAF PubDate
- 2018
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Plains and Plateau
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2017
- Field Date
- 1939-1940
- Coverage Date
- 1939-1940
- Coverage Place
- Lincoln county, Montana and Boundary county, Idaho, United States; southeastern British Columbia, Canada
- Notes
- By Harry Holbert Turney-High
- Supplement to American Anthropologist, v. 43, no. 2, pt. 2.
- LCCN
- 41016930
- LCSH
- Kootenai Indians