Book
Eastern Cherokee folktales: reconstructed from the field notes of Frans M. Olbrechts
U.S. Government Printing Office • (80) • Published In 1966 • Pages: 379-447
By: Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick, Kilpatrick, Anna Gritts.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is a collection of North Carolina Cherokee folktales, myths and legends as told to Olbrechts in January-February 1927 and which have been recompiled by the two Kilpatricks. The stories mainly relate animal myths and wonder stories involving superhuman beings. They focus mostly on hunting although many stories proceed from the context of the dance hall and thus are concerned with securing a mate. Contained within the stories are concepts of the afterlife, notions of illness, death and magic which surround ordinary living. It is sometimes noted by the secondary analysts that more complete elaborations of the stories have been collected elsewhere either among the Cherokee or from other Indian groups. However, the Fleakiller Cycle (pp. 411-414) and the legends of the Ani:gh(i)sgi War (pp. 430-35) have not been published before. Little attempt is made to reveal what connections the Cherokee made (or make) between these tales and significant aspects of their lives.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Place names
- Comparative evidence
- Literary texts
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Delores Walters ; 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
- 1775-1927
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Big Cove, Qualla Indian Reservation, North Carolina, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Jack Frederick Kilpatrick and Anna Gritts Kilpatrick
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cherokee Indians