book chapter
Navaho girl's puberty rite
New Mexico anthropologist • 6/7 • Published In 1943 • Pages: 3-12
By: Wyman, Leland Clifton, Bailey, Flora L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is the most detailed available account of the objective behavior during a Navajo girl's puberty rite. Both the authors are well-informed authorities on Navajo ceremonials. The rite described here was sponsored by DS near Two Wells, New Mexico, and the final night began on July 2, 1942. For comparison, certain details from another performance held for AY at Mariano Pass, New Mexico, in 1940 are given, preceded by an I in parenthesis (I). Other parenthetical initials refer to specific informants or other individuals. Clan numbers are according to Gladys Reichard, SOCIAL LIFE OF THE NAVAJO INDIANS, 4: Reichard, this file.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Food preparation
- Diet
- Pharmaceuticals
- Personal grooming
- Personal hygiene
- Athletic sports
- Theory of disease
- Mythology
- Ritual
- Organized ceremonial
- Ethnoanatomy
- Menstruation
- Puberty and initiation
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Natural Scientist
- Educator
- 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
- 1940, 1942
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1940, 1942
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Two Wells and Mariano Pass, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Leland C. Wyman and Flora L. Bailey
- This document consists of excerpts
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 42048685
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians