Book
Oraibi natal customs and ceremonies
Field Columbian Museum • Chicago • Published In 1905 • Pages: 6, 47-61
By: Voth, Henry R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source contains descriptions of childbirth and associated ceremonies among ther Hopi Indians of Oraibi at about the beginning of the twentieth century. An extended description of the naming ceremony for an infant boy is also given. The descriptions are based on personal observations by the author, a Mennonite missionary.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Naming
- Personal hygiene
- Social placement
- Childbirth
- Difficult and unusual births
- Postnatal care
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hopi
- 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
- Southwest and Basin
- 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.
- Missionary
- 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
- Timothy J. O';Leary ; 1975
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1880-1905
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1900
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Oraibi Pueblo, northeastern Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Henry R. Voth
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 05033517
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hopi Indians