Book
The sacrifice to the morning star by the Skidi Pawnee
Field Museum of Natural History • (6) • Published In 1922 • Pages: 18 , plates
By: Linton, Ralph.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a summary article, in a popular style, of the sacrifice to the morning star by the Skidi, the northernmost division of the Pawnee. The summary is based upon the field notes of George A. Dorsey and the extant literature.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Literary texts
- Aftermath of combat
- Mythology
- Spirits and gods
- Sacred objects and places
- Prayers and sacrifices
- 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)
- Nebraska, U.S.A.
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Ralph Linton
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 26001550
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pawnee Indians