Book
What they used to tell about: Indian legends from Labrador
McClelland and Stewart Limited • Toronto • Published In 1969 • Pages:
By: Desbarats, Peter.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a collection of Montagnais-Naskapi oral traditions collected in 1967. The stories were recorded in Montagnais and translated by bilingual Indians.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ethos
- Verbal arts
- Cosmology
- Community structure
- Annual cycle
- Settlement patterns
- General character of religion
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Innu
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- 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.
- Unknown
- 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
- Eleanor C. Swanson ; 1977-1978
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1962
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Labrador Peninsula (Quebec, and Newfoundland and Labrador provinces), Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Collected by the Department of Anthropology of the University of Montreal ; Edited and introduced by Peter Desbarats
- The names of the informants and translators appear at the beginning of each text and will be found in OCM Literary Texts (539). Bibliographic footnotes to the introductory chapter will be found in OCM Information Sources in Other Works (113), p. xix.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 78458272
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Innu Indians