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Description of the manners and customs of the Pawnee Indians
Moravian Church miscellany • 3 • Published In 1852 • Pages: 86-94
By: Smith, D. Z..
Abstract
This brief article, written by a missionary, contains ethnographic information pertinent to Pawnee society as it existed in the mid-ninteenth century. The article deals with: the Pawnee band or clan, organization of villages and localities, language, population, house types, subsistence economy, hospitality, labor, clothing, burial of the dead, and treatment of the aged. This work, when separated from its obvious theological orientation, contains a substantial amount of valuable ethnographic information about a people who have since undergone major cultural change, and at a time in American history when European-Indian culture contacts were relatively minor.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1998
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Plains and Plateau
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Missionary
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 1961
- Field Date
- 1851
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- Nebraska, United States
- Notes
- By Br. D. Z. Smith
- LCCN
- unk82071523
- LCSH
- Pawnee Indians