book chapter
Notes about the Navajoes
Canadian Indian • 1 • Published In 1890 • Pages: 15-16
By: Stephen, Alexander M., d. 1894.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a collection of brief notes by a resident of Keam's Canyon in the heart of Navajo country covering burial customs medical therapy, and division of labor between the sexes. (The text's spelling of the author's name as 'Stephens' is incorrect and should be 'Stephen.') The line drawing is not included.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Pastoral activities
- Tillage
- Mats and basketry
- Woven and other interworked fabrics
- Normal garb
- Smiths and their crafts
- Outbuildings
- Property in movables
- Division of labor by gender
- Burial practices and funerals
- Medical therapy
- 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.
- Unknown
- 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.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- 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
- ca. 1890
- 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
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- tmp81034181
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians