Book
David Zeisberger's history of northern American Indians
Published for the Society by Fred J. Heer • 19 • Published In 1910 • Pages: ii, 189
By: Zeisberger, David, Hulbert, Archer Butler, Schwarze, William Nathaniel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper by a Moravian missionary deals generally with the North American Indians, although most of the specific references are to the Delaware. The author describes the country of the Delaware and its flora and fauna, and gives accounts of their religion, economic life, social organization, etc., based upon observations extending over a period of years. The source is often not specific as to which tribe or tribes the author is referring.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Fauna
- Flora
- Mnemonic devices
- Settlement patterns
- Community heads
- Local officials
- Instigation of war
- Warfare
- Aftermath of combat
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mourning
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Delaware
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- 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
- 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
- James R. Leary ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1767-1780
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- seventeenth-eighteenth centuries
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Edited by Archer Butler Hulbert and William Nathaniel Schwarze
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 10014037
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Delaware Indians