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War stories from two enemy tribes
Journal of American folklore • 52 • Published In 1939 • Pages: 141-154
By: Goldschmidt, Walter R., Foster, George M. (George McClelland), Essene, Frank.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The information in this article was obtained by the authors from native informants during the summers of 1935-1937. Basically the document consists of a series of nine stories of warfare between the Yuki and Nomlaki people, four of which were told by Yuki informants and five by Nomlaki. The work concludes with a critical content evaluation of the stories by the authors (Goldschmidt, Foster, and Essene).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Reviews and critiques
- Verbal arts
- War
- Instigation of war
- Warfare
- Aftermath of combat
- Texts translated into english
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yuki
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2003
- 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
- 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 ; 2001
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1935-1937
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- mid nineteenth century - 1937
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- coast range area, northern California, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Walter Goldschmidt, George Foster, and Frank Essene
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17028737
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yuki Indians