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Chinookans of the Lower Columbia
Handbook of North American Indians. Northeast • 7 • Published In 1990 • Pages: 533-546
By: Silverstein, Michael.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a comprehensive summary of the ethnography of the Chinookans of the lower Columbia River from the late eighteenth to the mid nineteenth centuries, and will serve as an excellent introduction to the other documents in this file. This work includes information on the various tribal components of the large cultural unit known as 'Chinookans', their history, subsistence patterns, forms of currency, house types, technology, clothing, transort, social and political organization, life cycle events, and ceremonies and spirit power.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Collecting
- Hunting and trapping
- Fishing
- Normal garb
- Dwellings
- Settlement patterns
- Medium of exchange
- Boats
- Classes
- Slavery
- Marriage
- Tribe and nation
- Community heads
- Burial practices and funerals
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Chinookans of the Lower Columbia River
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwest Coast and California
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- 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
- John Beierle ; 2002
- 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. 1875-1950
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lower Chinook region, southern Washington and northern Oregon, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michael Silverstein
- For bibliography see document 10: [Wayne Suttles]
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77017162
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Chinook Indians