book chapter
Navaho pottery making: an inquiry into the affinities of Navaho painted pottery
Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University • 17 (1) • Published In 1941 • Pages: 85 , plates
By: Tschopik, Harry.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This book contains valuable data on the technology of Navajo pottery making. Within the preceding ten years, pottery making had ceased to be an active craft. Part I represents the technological details of pottery manufacture. Part II relates pottery manufacture within the general cultural and social context in which it existed. Part III presents details relating to the manufacture of ritual pipes for use in song ceremonials and ritual hunting. Part IV is comparisons and conclusions. Some substitutions have had to be made by HRAF in transcribing the diacritical marks in this source, but in the main, they are accurate copies of those used within the book.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Ceramic technology
- Paint and dye manufacture
- General tools
- Utensils
- Decorative art
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Navajo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- 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 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
- Katherine Schlesinger ; 1951
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1937-1938
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1937-1938
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ramah-Atarque area, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Harry Tschopik, Jr.
- This document consists of excerpts
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-79)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 41007578
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians