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Political and ceremonial organization of the Plains-Ojibway
Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History • 11 (6) • Published In 1914 • Pages: 475-511
By: Skinner, Alanson Buck.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a brief sketch of Plains-Ojibwa, or Bungi, social and ceremonial organization. Material on warfare and the buffalo hunt is also included. The author visited the Plains-Ojibwa in the summer of 1913. Complete bibliographical citation is made at the end of the volume of which this source is a part. Therefore, where necessary, bibliographical information is given in analyst's notes.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Hunting and trapping
- Dwellings
- Status, role, and prestige
- Sodalities
- Clans
- Community structure
- Police
- Military organization
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ojibwa
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- 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
- W. W. Stein
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1913
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1913 (summer)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Long Plains Reserve, Maintoba, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Alanson Skinner
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 15003023
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ojibwa Indians