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The medicine bundles and busks of the Florida Seminole
Florida anthropologist • 7 • Published In 1954 • Pages: 31-70
By: Sturtevant, William C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source describes and analyzes the medicine bundles and the Green Corn Dance (busk) of the Florida Seminole. The morphology and uses of the medicine bundles are outlined. The constituent elements and functions of the Green Corn Dance are similarly described and analyzed. Both the medicine bundles and the busks are compared to similar, related phenonena in the Southeast and other parts of North America.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Comparative evidence
- Pharmaceuticals
- Warfare
- Magic
- Ethnobotany
- Ethnozoology
- Sacred objects and places
- Organized ceremonial
- Settlement patterns
- Asceticism
- Dance
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Seminole
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Christopher Latham ; 1989
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1952-1953
- 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)
- Mikasuki and Cow Creek bands of Seminole; southern Florida, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- William C. Sturtevant
- Information on the medicine bundles is indexed for Luck and Chance (778). Information on the busks is indexed for Organized Ceremonials (796).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-70)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 56028409
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Seminole Indians