Book
An historical and ethnological survey of the Cuna Indians
Göteborg Museum • 10 • Published In 1938 • Pages: xxvii, 686 , plates
By: Nordenskiöld, Erland, érez Kantule, Ruben, Wassén, Henry.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The material in this document was arranged and edited from the manuscript and notes of Erland Nordenskiöld by Henry Wassén and from the original Cuna documents at the Gothenburg Ethnographical Museum. Many of these manuscripts were brought to Sweden by Nordenskiöld's native assistant, Ruben Pérez Kantule, who assisted in arranging and interpreting materials for Nordenskiöld and Wassén, after the death of the former. Wassén had for six months assisted Nordenskiöld and later made a trip to the regions occupied by the Cuna in order to study them so he was qualified to take over the task of putting in order the vast amount of material left by the author when he died. Wassén is responsible for the arrangement of the material because Nordenskiöld's manuscript was not completed and the comparative part of the work was entirely unwritten when editorial work began. For the complete story of the work of Nordenskiöld, Wassén and their informant, Ruben Pérez Kantule, see pages i-xxvii of the text. The excellent, original material appearing in this document is divided into seven parts covering the following topics: geography and population statistics; family and community organization, and various types of social relationships; political leaders; some Cuna texts; Cuna Indian ideology; medicine men and the treatment of various illnesses and disease; the use of magical songs in hunting, and songs sung primarily for pleasure. There are excellent plates of Cuna picture writing included. Throughout a great deal of this book the original text of various manuscripts appears on the left hand side of the page and the explained and translated text appears on the opposite side.
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kuna
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- 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
- Leila Small ; 1951 ; 1966
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1927
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- historical period to 1927
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- San Blas, Panama
- NotesAdditional notes
- Erland Nordenskiöld, in collaboration with the Cuna Indian Ruben Pérez Kantule ; arranged and edited …by Henry Wassén ; preface by Walter Kaudern ; editorial chapter by Henry Wassén
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 680-683)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 41014814
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cuna Indians