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The construction of a wickiup on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation
Kiva • 24 (2) • Published In 1958 • Pages: 14-20
By: Shaeffer, Margaret W. M..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article contains a fairly detailed description of the physical structure and the process of constructing an Apache wickiup. The information was gathered through both observation and informal interviewing during Shaeffer's six years of residence in a Fort Apache community around 1949.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Dwellings
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Western Apache
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- 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.
- Archaeologist
- 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 ; 1980
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1949
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1949
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- White Mountain Apache, Fort Apache Indian Reservation, east central Arizona, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Margaret W. M. Shaeffer
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 19-20)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 41020657
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Western Apache Indians