Book
Minor ceremonies of the Crow Indians
American Museum Press • 21 (5) • Published In 1924 • Pages: 323-365
By: Lowie, Robert Harry.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author gathered data on Crow ceremonial life during visits to the Crow of southeastern Montana from 1907 to 1916. This final article based on that fieldwork contains native accounts of a series of minor Crow ceremonies: the Horse dance, the Medicine Pipe (Village Indian Ritual and Crow Ritual), Cooked Meat singing, the Bear Song dance, the Chaste Women's dance, the Not-small Old Woman dance, the Greasy Grass dance, and the Badger dance.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Organized ceremonial
- Sodalities
- Magical and mental therapy
- Mythology
- Revelation and divination
- Applied animal science
- Sacred objects and places
- Acquisition and relinquishment of property
- Ethnosociology
- Gift giving
- Food preparation
- Social control
- Division of labor by gender
- Kin relationships
- Magicians and diviners
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Crow
- 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
- Plains and Plateau
- 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.
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Eve Glassberg ; 1954
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1907-1916
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1830-1916
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern Great Plains, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Robert H. Lowie
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 25005859
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Crow Indians
- Indian mythology--North America