essay
Yurok
Handbook of North American Indians. California • 8 • Published In 1978 • Pages: 137-154
By: Pilling, Arnold R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article presents a brief culture summary of the ethnography of the Yuroks of northwestern California. Some of the topics covered in this work are: intertribal ties with other ethnic groups, prehistory and history, social stratification, the district, villages and village clusters, the descent group, property ownership, ceremonies, curing, sorcery, death and mourning, technology, mythology, and folklore.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Classes
- Accumulation of wealth
- Districts
- Towns
- Settlement patterns
- Rule of descent
- Property
- Organized ceremonial
- Sickness
- Mats and basketry
- Dance
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yurok
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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; 2010
- 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
- 1775-1972
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- North Pacific Coast, California, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Arnold R. Pilling
- Stock number 047-000-00347-4
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77017162
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yurok Indians