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Myths of the Uintah Utes
Journal of American folk-lore • 23 • Published In 1963 • Pages: 299-363
By: Mason, John Alden.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Mason presents thirty myths of the Uintah Utes. In this collection, 'animal stories are conspicious by their frequency, and cosmogonical myths by their practical absence…' (p. 219). The principal character, as trickster, transformer, dupe, or culture-hero, is Coyote.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Literary texts
- Cosmology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ute
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- Delgra Childs; 1980
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1909
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1909-1910
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Uintah Indian Reservation, White Rock, Utah, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- By J. Alden Mason
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17028737
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ute Indians