Book
Klamath ethnography
University of California Press • 30 • Published In 1930 • Pages: x, 338
By: Spier, Leslie.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The first part of this monograph is a description of Klamath culture as Spier could reconstruct it from the accounts of the old people of the tribe. A great number of Klamath words are given throughout the descriptive part of the text. In the second part, Klamath culture is compared trait by trait with the surrounding cultures of the Great Basin, California and the Northwest Coast, and also with various other North American Indian groups. According to Spier, certain traits like the significance of wealth, importance of chiefs, slavery, and the dependence of social standing on the mother's bride price are not original to Klamath culture but have been accepted from the Northwest Coast and California Indian cultures not too long before the reservation period.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Collecting
- Mats and basketry
- Normal garb
- Boats
- Kinship terminology
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Klamath
- 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
- 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
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sigrid Khera ; Sarah Bridges ; 1970-1973
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1925, 1926
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1860-1900
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Klamath County, Oregon, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Leslie Spier
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-334) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 30001456
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Klamath Indians