book chapter
Letter--no. 56. Rock Island, Upper Mississippi
Illustrations of the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians • 2 • Published In 1876 • Pages: 207-217
By: Catlin, George.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this letter Catlin discusses some of his observations on the Sauk and Fox in the Illinois area in 1836. The text is copiously illustrated with engravings based on Catlin's paintings of Indian life and leaders. What slight ethnographic information there is centers mainly on dances and treaty agreements with the United States government. Since the author treats the Sauk and Fox as a single culture unit, the material has been marked for appropriate category numbers except in those cases where the material has been identified as pertaining to the Sauk alone.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- External relations
- Dance
- Animal transport
- Acquisition and relinquishment of property
- Homosexuality
- Buying and selling
- Real property
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Fox
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- 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 chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Artist
- Traveler
- 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.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Eleanor Swanson ; John Beierle ; 1976
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1836
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1836
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Upper Mississippi region, Illinois
- NotesAdditional notes
- By George Catlin
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 02014234
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Fox Indians