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Purification of the sacred bundles, a ceremony of the Pawnee

Field Museum of Natural History (7)Published In 1923 • Pages: 11 , plates

By: Linton, Ralph.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a brief summary of the Pawnee Bundle Purification Ceremony. The description is based primarily on the field notes of George A. Dorsey. Linton was a noted American anthropologist.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Sacred objects and places
Purification and atonement
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
26001551
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Pawnee Indians