book chapter
Pomo Indians
Handbook of the Indians of California • Berkeley, Calif. • Published In 1953 • Pages: 222-271
By: Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document dealing with the Pomo Indians is divided into three primary parts comprising chapters 15-17. The first of these divisions deals with such topics as habitat, environment, political divisions, lists of village communities, wars, and food supply. The second chapter on the Pomo deals with their civilization and covers such things as material culture, marriage, trade, birth and death, and government. The last of these three chapters covers Pomo religion, and is concerned with the ceremonial system, special ceremonies, modern Ghost Dance, mythology, and type of culture (culture summary). As a whole, each section is quite adequately covered, although elaboration of detail is at a minimum, a fact which is notable in the description of the various religious ceremonies.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Place names
- Linguistic identification
- Mats and basketry
- Ornament
- Dwellings
- Settlement patterns
- Dance
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Mythology
- Spirits and gods
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Pomo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- book chapter
- 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 ; 1960
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1918
- 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)
- northern California, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- A. L. Kroeber
- Original ed. issued as Bulletin 78 of the U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Pomo Indians