book chapter
Huron
Indians of the western Great Lakes 1615-1760 • (10) • Published In 1940 • Pages: iv-v, 1-160, 330-338
By: Kinietz, W. Vernon (William Vernon).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This overview is largely comprised of passages from early seventeenth to eighteenth century chroniclers for both the core area of the Huron prior to 1650 and subsequent diaspora populations. (An annotated bibliography provides a useful guide.) Topics covered include physical characteristics, dress and ornament, agriculture, hunting, fishing, food preparation, manufactures, transportation, fire making, political organization, justice, hospitality, games, dances, war, birth custom, children, kinship, marriage, death customs, astronomy, religion, and shamans and medical practice.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Descriptive somatology
- Drives and emotions
- Food quest
- Agriculture
- Diet
- Normal garb
- Adornment
- Ceramic technology
- Dwellings
- Locomotion
- Boats
- Community
- Offenses against life
- Property offenses
- Military installations
- Warfare
- Aftermath of combat
- Magical and mental therapy
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Medical therapy
- Cosmology
- Mythology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Huron/Wendat
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2015
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1615-1717
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southeastern Ontario and southern Quebec, Canada; Michigan, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- By W. Vernon Kinietz
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 330-338)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 41001717
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Wyandot Indians