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The Beaver dance and adoption ceremony of the Crow Indians
Lifeways of intermontane and plains Montana Indians • (1) • Published In 1979 • Pages: 43-56
By: Big Man, Max, Donaldson, Jessie Louise, Heidenreich, C. Adrian.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is a thorough, detailed account of the Beaver Dance and related ceremonies observed by the author, a Crow chief, in 1926.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Organized ceremonial
- Friendships
- Games
- Community heads
- Community structure
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Dance
- Music
- Spectacles
- Revelation and divination
- Sacred objects and places
- Magical and mental therapy
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Chief
- 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
- Teferi A. Adem; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1926-1927
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1884-1926
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- south-central Montana, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Max Big Man ; with an Introduction by Jesse Schultz Graham and Notes by C. Adrian Heidenreich
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Crow Indians