Book
The Wahnenauhi manuscript: historical sketches of the Cherokees; together with some of their customs, traditions, and superstitions
U.S. Government Printing Office • (77) • Published In 1966 • Pages: 175-213 , plates
By: Wahnenauhi, Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This work is an edited version of a sketch of Cherokee customs, beliefs and history written by a Cherokee woman, Wahnenauhi, and presented by her to the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1889. The time period covered by the sketch is from about the time of contact with Europeans to the mid nineteenth century. This work includes discussions of Cherokee social and political organization, religious beliefs and myths, customs relating to work, play, dress and food, native-White relations during the contact period, the removal of the Cherokee west of the Mississippi River, the impact of European contact and the Removal on Cherokee society. This work also includes brief, but valuable biographical sketches of George Lowery and Sequoyah. Editorial footnotes to the text provide useful additional material and are also useful in evaluating the reliability of Wahnenauhi's manuscript.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Life history materials
- Acculturation and culture contact
- External relations
- Sorcery
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Medical personnel
- Missions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Cherokee
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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.
- Indigenous Person
- 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
- Gerald Reid ; John Beierle ; 1987
- 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
- 1540-1870
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southeastern states, and Oklahoma, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Edited and with an introduction by Jack Frederick Kilpatrick
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cherokee Indians