Book
Crow Indian medicine bundles
Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation • 17 • Published In 1960 • Pages: i-178 , 4 colored and 68 black and white plates
By: Wildschut, William, Ewers, John C. (John Canfield).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The principal author, a businessman, collected extensively among the Crow between 1918 and 1927. Shortly after his death, this portion of his unpublished manuscript on Crow culture was compiled and edited by a researcher who added the bracketed material and footnotes. The monograph describes and illustrates a number of Crow medicine bundles. These bundles were used in the Sun Dance, warfare, love magic, curing, witchcraft, etc.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural identity and pride
- Spirits and gods
- Mythology
- General character of religion
- Eschatology
- Revelation and divination
- Sacred objects and places
- Status, role, and prestige
- Organized ceremonial
- Warfare
- Sodalities
- Uniform and accouterment
- Music
- Work in skins
- Spectacles
- Inheritance
- Burial practices and funerals
- Cult of the dead
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Magical and mental therapy
- Hunting and trapping
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Conception
- Traditional history
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Crow
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Plains and Plateau
- 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.
- Businessperson
- 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
- 1918-1927
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1805-1927
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northern Great Plains, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- edited by John C. Ewers
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-178)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 61002441
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Crow Indians--Religion
- Crow Indians--Rites and ceremonies
- Crow mythology
- Charms
- Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric