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Montagnais art in birch-bark, a circumpolar trait
Indian notes and monographs • 11 (2) • Published In 1937 • Pages: 11, 45-157 , 25 plates
By: Speck, Frank G. (Frank Gouldsmith).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Concentrating on the Montagnais bands at Lake St. John and Escoumains with some material from the Mistassini, Speck describes the ornamentation of birch bark containers. His purpose, typical of anthropology of that time, was to trace the evolution and development of the art from distributional evidence. Although the results are somewhat dubious, Speck gives a good synposis of the controversy about the European origin of post-contact northeastern Indian art. The study gives a thorough description and analysis of the ornamentation of birchbark containers.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Decorative art
- Woodworking
- Comparative evidence
- Utensils
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Innu
- 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
- 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
- Marlene Martin ; 1977-1978
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1908-1935
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lake St. John and Escoumains Bands; Labrador, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Frank G. Speck
- Category 531 was used for the designs and discussion of the artistic elements.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 38037474
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Innu Indians