Book
The Oraibi Marau ceremony
Field Museum of Natural History • Chicago • Published In 1912 • Pages: 88 , plates
By: Voth, Henry R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a detailed, day by day account of the Marau ceremony in the village of Oraibi. The ceremony takes place every alternate year, once in January and once in September. Each is described separately, though they are essentially the same (p. 12). The description is based on partial observations of the event on a number o foccasions between 1897 and 1903. Since the ceremnoy goes on 24 hours a day for nione days, Voth never witnessed all of it at once. The Marau Society is one of the “women's fraternities” in Oraibi. The ceremony serves partially to initiate new members, but it has other functions which include inducing agricultural and human fertility and assuring rain. Unfortunately, Voth never discusses the purposes or significance of the ceremony.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Decorative art
- Sacred objects and places
- Organized ceremonial
- Sodalities
- Priesthood
- Special garments
- 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
- Martin Malone ; 1975
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1897, 1901, 1903
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1893-1903
- 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
- Heinrich R. Voth
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 12015549
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hopi Indians