book chapter
Notes on marriage among the Navajoes, Navajo dress, Navajo dwellings
Our forest children • 3 • Published In 1890 • Pages: 222-223
By: Stephen, Alexander M., d. 1894.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Sections are here excerpted from paragraphs written at the turn of the 19th century by a resident of Keam's Canon in the heart of Navajo country. These are actually three separate paragraphs entitled, 'Marriage Among the Navajoes,' 'Navajo Dress,' and 'Navajo Dwellings,' but for the purpose of this file, they have been grouped as one document.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Normal garb
- Ornament
- Personal grooming
- Dwellings
- Regulation of marriage
- Mode of marriage
- Nuptials
- Termination of marriage
- Polygamy
- 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
- ca. 1890
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 18909
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Keams Canyon area, Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alexander M. Stephen
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians