book chapter
Navajo omens and taboos
Rydal Press • Santa Fe • Published In 1940 • Pages:
By: Newcomb, Franc Johnson.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This extensive collection of Navajo omens and taboos could only have been written by someone who has lived intimately with the tribe over a long period. Mrs. Newcomb and her husband began operating a trading post around 1915 and continued to live there for some time. Her information comes not only from personal observation, but also from Navajo informants, and twenty white traders. The material covers taboos related to the house, birth, death, farming, birds, reptiles, animals, foods, occupations, personal activities, water, rain, fog, wind, lightning, and ceremonials.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Avoidance and taboo
- 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.
- Trader
- 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
- 1915-1940
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1915-1940
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Arizona and New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Franc Johnson Newcomb
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians