book chapter
The Navajo Indians
Our forest children • 3 • Published In 1890 • Pages: 113-117
By: Wilson, E. F..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Sections are here excerpted from an account of the Navajo written by a missionary who traveled in their country in the late 1880's. Brief paragraphs cover the population and schooling of the time, agricultural implements, dress and ornaments, silverwork and weaving, and houses.l
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Location
- Population
- Tillage
- Woven and other interworked fabrics
- Normal garb
- Ornament
- Smiths and their crafts
- Dwellings
- Independence training
- Elementary education
- 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.
- Missionary
- 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.
- 2: Fair
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Kachen S. Coley ; 1951
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1888
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1880s
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- E. F. Wilson
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians