essay
The Ona
Marginal tribes • Washington, D.c. • Published In 1946 • Pages: 107-125, , plates
By: Cooper, John M. (John Montgomery).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is a summary of Ona culture synthesizing previous materials on the subject. Brief descriptions of the following are included: environment, tribal divisions, language, population, history of investigation, subsistence activiies, shelter, dress, transportation, manufacture, social and political life, economic life, life cycle, esthetics and recreation, religion, mythology, lore and learning.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Ona
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southern South America
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Cleric
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Helen Gunsher Bornstein ; John M. Beierle ; 1973
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tierra del Fuego; South America
- NotesAdditional notes
- by John M. Cooper
- Bibliography is not included in HRAF
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ona Indians