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Mescalero Apache girls' puberty ceremony
El Palacio • 46 • Published In 1939 • Pages: 193-204
By: Nicholas, Dan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article contains a description of a girls' puberty ceremony held in 1939. The author, an Apache living on the Mescalero Reservation, does not attempt to go beyond the descriptive level. In addition to details about the ceremony, there is information on the Mountain Spirit dance groups that perform during the puberty rite.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Puberty and initiation
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mescalero Apache
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- 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.
- 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
- Eleanor C. Swanson ; 1979-1980
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1939
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1939
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Mescalero Indian Reservation, New Mexico, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Dan Nicholas
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-204)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 59038557
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mescalero Indians