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Iroquois games
Journal of American folklore • 9 (35) • Published In 1896 • Pages: 269-277
By: Beauchamp, William M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This paper, which was read at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Buffalo (N.Y.) in 1896, describes in some detail the games existing at the time among the Iroquois. Children's games are mentioned, and adult games including the black and white game, lacrosse, foot races, pole climbing, and snow snake are discussed.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gambling
- Athletic sports
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Iroquois
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- 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
- article
- 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
- Alice McCloskey ; 1954
- 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
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- not specified, United States and Canada
- NotesAdditional notes
- W. M. Beauchamp
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Iroquois Indians