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Description of the manners and customs of the Pawnee Indians
Moravian Church miscellany • 3 • Published In 1852 • Pages: 86-94
By: Smith, D. Z..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This brief article, written by a missionary, contains ethnographic information pertinent to Pawnee society as it existed in the mid-ninteenth century. The article deals with: the Pawnee band or clan, organization of villages and localities, language, population, house types, subsistence economy, hospitality, labor, clothing, burial of the dead, and treatment of the aged. This work, when separated from its obvious theological orientation, contains a substantial amount of valuable ethnographic information about a people who have since undergone major cultural change, and at a time in American history when European-Indian culture contacts were relatively minor.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Tillage
- Preservation and storage of food
- Normal garb
- Settlement patterns
- Division of labor by gender
- Gender status
- External relations
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1851
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nebraska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Br. D. Z. Smith
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- unk82071523
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pawnee Indians