book chapter
Navajo silversmiths
Smithsonian Institution • Washington • Published In 1883 • Pages: 167-178
By: Matthews, Washington.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is the earliest account on the Navajo silverwork craft. The author, an ethnologist who did many meticulous studies on various aspects of Navajo life, served as an assistant surgeon in the Army at Fort Wingate in Navajo country. In the course of his duty there, he employed two silversmiths to do work for him and the resultant observations cover their utensils, methods of working and objects produced.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Smiths and their crafts
- Special tools
- 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
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1880-1881
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Fort Wingate, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Washington Matthews
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 16005483
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians