book chapter
The Pawnee Ghost Dance hand game
Columbia University Press • 16 • Published In 1933 • Pages: x, 337 [incomplete]
By: Lesser, Alexander.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document, by a professional anthropologist, is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the history of the Pawnee in the ninteenth century, the acquisition of the Ghost Dance by the Pawnee, and the cultural significance of the Ghost Dance to Pawnee Society. The second part deals with the Hand Game, played by the Pawnee both prior to and following the advent of the Ghost Dance ceremony, as well as its distribution among other tribes. The detailed analysis of the Hand Game given in sections vii-xii has not been processed for this file. This document is particularly valuable for its excellent account of Pawnee history and White-Indian relations in the ninteenth century.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Games
- Gambling
- External relations
- Public welfare
- Political movements
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Pawnee
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1998
- 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 chapter
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1960
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1930-1931
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- early nineteenth -- early twentieth centuries
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern Kansas and Nebraska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alexander Lesser
- pp. 160-end are not included
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 36014896
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pawnee Indians