book chapter
New relation of Gaspesia: with the customs and religion of the Gaspesian Indians
The Champlain Society • 5 • Published In 1910 • Pages: xvi, 452
By: Le Clercq, Chrestien, ca., Ganong, William Francis.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source was written by a missionary of the Reformed Francescan (Recollect) order, during the eleven years (1675-1686) in which he lived among the Micmac (Gaspesian) Indians in what now constitutes the province of New Brunswick, Canada. The source which was originally written in French, has been translated into English and edited by William F. Ganong of Smith College, and it is this English version which appears here. The ethnographic data presented in this source pertain to: topography of the region, origin of the Micmac according to their own tradition and European speculation, birth customs, clothing, ornament and personal toilet, dwellings and family life, food and food preparation, language, religion, mythology, shamans, chiefs, physical appearance and general health of the people, marriage customs, warfare, hunting, recreation and native medicine. In most cases these data appear as incidental information in discussions of missionary activities among the Indians with their concomitant theological implications. The introduction to this source, pp. 1-46, has not been processed since it deals primarily with the physical structure of the book, and a biography of the author, nor have pp. 304-444, since they deal with the author's return to France, and the original French version of the 'New Relations'.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Missions
- Religious beliefs
- Hunting and trapping
- Fauna
- Rest days and holidays
- Medical therapy
- Disasters
- Sacred objects and places
- War
- 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.
- Missionary
- 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 ; 1961: John Beierle; 2009
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1675-1686
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1675-1690
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- New Brunswick, Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Father Chrestien Le Clercq ; translated and edited by William F. Ganong …
- Only pages i-xiii, 47-303, 445-452 and the plates following pages 10, 12, 14, 26 & 28 have been processed for the files
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 10019370
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Micmac Indians