Book
Kitchi-Gami: wanderings round Lake Superior
Chapman and Hall • London • Published In 1860 • Pages:
By: Kohl, Johann Georg, Wraxall, Lascelles.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book was written by an eminent German traveler during a stay on the shores of Lake Superior in the mid-nineteenth century. While there the author had ample opportunity to study the Ojibwa who lived throughout the area, and it is from his astute observations of Indian life that this source is derived. Although the data in this source are somewhat lacking in the ceremonial, social and religious aspects of Ojibwa ethnography, they do give an accurate and detailed account of the material culture and mythology of the people, much of which has been fully substantiated by professional ethnologists from their own field work. Abundant data may be found in this source on: missionary activity among the Ojibwa, the canoe and its construction, the order of the Midés, Indian sports and pastimes, mythology, death customs, sign language, travel, eschatology, dreams and spirit quests, supernatural beings, snow shoes and their construction, writing, and pipes and their importance to the Ojibwa.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gestures and signs
- Locomotion
- Boats
- Leisure time activities
- Games
- Gambling
- Athletic sports
- Shipbuilding
- Travel
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mythology
- Eschatology
- Spirits and gods
- Revelation and divination
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ojibwa
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Traveler
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1962
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1855
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 'traditional' to ca. 1850
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Central Ojibwa: Lake Superior region, Ontario, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- J. G. Kohl
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ojibwa Indians