book chapter
The Micmac Indians of eastern Canada
University of Minnesota Press • Minneapolis • Published In 1955 • Pages:
By: Wallis, Wilson D. (Wilson Dallam), Wallis, Ruth Sawtell.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph is the result of fieldwork by Wallis originally in 1911-1912, and a revisit by Wallis and his wife in 1953 to see what changes had occurred in the intervening 40 years. The monograph is divided into two parts: the first, Tribal Life, contains the ethnography of the people and concludes with an analysis of culture change and the status of the modern Micmac; the second part, Folktales and Traditions, contains material about the culture hero Gluskap, supernatural beings, history and tradition, origins of material culture, magic and animal stories. The volume concludes with three appendices of zoological, botanical and anatomical terms. Wilson Wallis is Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota and both he and his wife are well-known anthropologists.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ideas about nature and people
- Food quest
- Sociocultural trends
- Shipbuilding
- Dwellings
- Magicians and diviners
- War
- Burial practices and funerals
- Literary texts
- Mythology
- External relations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mi'kmaq
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1961: John Beierle; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1911-1912, 1953
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1500-1953
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Eastern Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- Wilson D. Wallis and Ruth Sawtell Wallis
- Pages 338-395, 401-446, and 481-492, which contain folktales with little cultural content, have not been processed for the Micmac collection.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-314)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 54010292
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Micmac Indians