Book
Notes on the Bribri of Costa Rica
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation • 6 (3) • Published In 1920 • Pages: 37-106
By: Skinner, Alanson Buck.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author gathered the material for this monograph during a two month stay among the Bribri. His primary purpose in visiting the group was to collect examples of native handicrafts, and he did not have the opportunity to observe religious ceremonies or the manufacture of some of the material culture items. Apart from a short section on funerary customs, the source deals with housing, furniture, and the various articles made of cordage, wood, pottery, and so forth, which were aboriginal in nature. Profusely illustrated, the source constitutes a thorough inventory of Talamanca material culture. It is limited in its descriptive side, however, by the fact that many of the items of native manufacture were no longer being made by the time Skinner observed the group, so that the article on the whole represents an extinct industry.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Woven and other interworked fabrics
- Utensils
- Furniture
- Dwellings
- Weapons
- Animal by-products
- Ornament
- Normal garb
- Burial practices and funerals
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Talamancans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Central America
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- 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
- James R. Leary ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1917
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1917
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Bribri people, Talamanca canton, Limón province, Costa Rica
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alanson Skinner
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 21000854
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bribri Indians