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Report on the Kootenay Indians of south-eastern British Columbia
Report of the sixty- meeting of the British association for the advancement of science held at Edinburgh in August 1892 • London • Published In 1893 • Pages: 545-615
By: Chamberlain, Alexander Francis.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This report on Kutenai culture features brief descriptions of a broad range of topics, including: temperament, artistic ability, color vocabulary, social organization, marriage, childrearing, property and inheritance, crime, religion, medicine, funerals, tattooing, music and songs, hunting and fishing, boats, houses, dress, food, and disease. The most thorough discussions are on language, including grammar and vocabulary. In the scientific fashion of the time, there are anthropometric measurements listed for several dozen individuals.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Fauna
- Flora
- Descriptive somatology
- Drives and emotions
- Population
- Morbidity
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Fishing
- Diet
- Personal grooming
- Weapons
- Property in movables
- Inheritance
- Boats
- Music
- Arranging a marriage
- Community heads
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mythology
- Spirits and gods
- Ethnophysics
- Childbirth
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kutenai
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2018
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2017
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1891
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1880-1892
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southeastern British Columbia, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Dr. A.F. Chamberlain
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17001051
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kootenai Indians