Book
Tall woman: the life story of Rose Mitchell, a Navajo woman, c. 1874-1977
University of New Mexico Press • Albuquerque • Published In 2001 • Pages:
By: Mitchell, Rose, approximately, Frisbie, Charlotte Johnson.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is the autobiography of a Navajo woman, Tall Woman (Rose Mitchell), who was reportedly born in 1874, six years after the Navajo people returned from incarceration at Fort Sumner in Arizona (1863-1868), and who died at the age of over102 in 1977. The document is told in her own words, but in English translation, and supported by numerous endnotes at the end of the text drawn from a variety of source material. Her story is sometimes poignant, sometimes humorous, but always containing a wealth of ethnographic information on Navajo culture as she experienced it from her earliest childhood to just before her death. Appendix B of this work (pp. 352-377) presents a chronological sequence of events in the life of Tall Woman, her family and community from about 1850 to the late 1990s.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- Life history materials
- Morbidity
- History
- Annual cycle
- Pastoral activities
- Pharmaceuticals
- Kinship terminology
- Community heads
- Magical and mental therapy
- Medical care
- Organized ceremonial
- 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
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- 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
- John Beierle; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1963-1998
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1874-1998
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Navajo Reservation, Chinle area, Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Rose Mitchell ; edited by Charlotte J. Frisbie
- Includes bibliographical references (p. xl-liii, 489-515) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 00009014
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Navajo Indians