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Notes on the Hunting Dance of the Cow Creek Seminole
Florida anthropologist • 9 • Published In 1956 • Pages: 67-78
By: Capron, Louis.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an eye-witness account of the Hunting Dance (or Snake Dance as it is called by the Seminole) performed in 1946 by the Cow Creek Seminoles in south Florida. Capron describes the preparation of the dance ground and feast, and the dance itself, which involved around fifty dancers with one hundred people in attendance altogether.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Music
- 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
- Ian Skoggard ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1946
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1946
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- south Florida
- NotesAdditional notes
- Louis Capron
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 56028409
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Seminole Indians