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Notes on Paviotso material culture
Nevada State Museum • (1) • Published In 1959 • Pages: 7 , 9 end plates
By: Wheat, Margaret M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this source the author, a professional anthropologist at the Nevada State Museum, describes the making of a tule balsa boat and a cattail house, from the gathering of the basic raw materials to the finished product. Her descriptions are further illustrated by many photographs taken during the various stages of construction. The boat and house were both made for the author's benefit by present day Paviotsos living near Stillwater, Nevada.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Shipbuilding
- Boats
- Dwellings
- Forest products
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Northern Paiute
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southwest and Basin
- 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.
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1962; John Beierle; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1958
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1958
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Stillwater, northern Nevada, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Margaret M. Wheat
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 73641131
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Paiute Indians