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.
Abstract
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'.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2019
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Southwest and Basin
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Eleanor C. Swanson ; 1980
- Field Date
- 1906
- Coverage Place
- Mescalero Indian Reservation, New Mexico, United States
- Notes
- By Pliny Earle Goddard
- LCCN
- 10011191
- LCSH
- Mescalero Indians