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The Southern Ute dog-dance and its reported transmission to Taos
New Mexico anthropologist • 3 (5) • Published In 1939 • Pages: 66-72
By: Opler, Marvin Kaufmann.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Based mainly on informant recall, this document deals with the Dog-dance and its apparent transmission from the Sioux to the Ute and thence to Taos. Included are information on the dances, ritual paraphernalia, and the Dog Company, a military society of earlier times.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Organized ceremonial
- External trade
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Dance
- Sociocultural trends
- Military organization
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ute
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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; 1981
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1936-1937
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Ignacio, Colorado, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Marvin K. Opler
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 42048685
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ute Indians