book chapter
The Navaho wedding basket -- 1938
Museum notes of the Museum of Northern Arizona • 10 • Published In 1938 • Pages: 25-28
By: Stewart, Omer Call.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article describes the technique of making the wedding basket and its use. It also discusses the making of these baskets for trade by the Utes and Paiutes.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Mats and basketry
- External trade
- Nuptials
- 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
- William P. Mangin ; 1950-1951
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1938
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1860-1938
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Southwestern United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Omer Call Stewart
- This document consists of excerpts
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 87657159
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians