essay
Gotal: a Mescalero Apache ceremony
Putnam anniversary volume; anthropological essays presented to Frederic Ward Putnam in honor of his seventieth birthday, April 16, 1909, by his friends and associates • New York • Published In 1909 • Pages: 385-394
By: Goddard, Pliny Earle.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article contains an incomplete description of a Mescalero puberty ceremony and the translations of some of the songs accompanying that ceremony. The data were collected in 1906 from an informant described as the 'last priest of the chief rites of this ceremony' and whose 'memory was failing'.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Literary texts
- Puberty and initiation
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mescalero Apache
- 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
- essay
- 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 ; 1980
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1906
- 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
- By Pliny Earle Goddard
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 10011191
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mescalero Indians