Book
The Thunder Ceremony of the Pawnee
Field Museum of Natural History • (5) • Published In 1922 • Pages: 19 , plates
By: Linton, Ralph.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a summary article of the Pawnee Thunder Ceremony based on the field notes of George A. Dorsey. Linton begins the description with a summary of Pawnee culture as a background and then describes the ceremony, which is the opening ceremony of the Pawnee annual ceremonial cycle.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Music
- Spirits and gods
- Sacred objects and places
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Pawnee
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. mid to late 1800s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Platte River valley, Nebraska, U.S.A.
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Ralph Linton
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 26001549
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pawnee Indians