book chapter
Food animals of the Navajo
El Palacio • 44 • Published In 1938 • Pages: 149-154
By: Elmore, Francis H. (Francis Hapgood).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This brief but detailed account summarizes the methods and implements used for hunting the chief food animals of the Navajo, as well as recipes for their preparation into meat dishes. At the time of writing the article, the author was gathering material for a Ph.D. degree on Navajo ethnozoology at the University of Southern California.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Hunting and trapping
- Food preparation
- Diet
- Weapons
- 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
- Katchen S. Coley ; 1951
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1938
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southwest United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Francis H. Elmore
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 59038557
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians