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A Uintah Ute bear dance, March, 1931
American anthropologist, n.s. • 34 • Published In 1962 • Pages: 263-273
By: Steward, Julian Haynes.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is a straightforward narration of what Steward observed while attending the Bear Dance at the Uintah Reservation in 1931. The author describes the activities, participants, degree of participation, and some of the changes in this ceremonial that seems to have lost much of its meaining and importance to the Utes.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Organized ceremonial
- Dance
- Sociocultural trends
- Music
- 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
- Eleanor C. Swanson; Jan Simpson; 1981
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1931
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1931
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation, Utah, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Julian Haynes Steward
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ute Indians