essay

Gotal: a Mescalero Apache ceremony

putnam anniversary volume; anthropological essays presented to frederic ward putnam in honor of his seventieth birthday, april 16, 1909, by his friends and associatesNew York • Published In 1909 • Pages: 385-394

By: Goddard, Pliny Earle.

Abstract
This article contains an incomplete description of a Mescalero puberty ceremony and the translations of some of the songs accompanying that ceremony. The data were collected in 1906 from an informant described as the 'last priest of the chief rites of this ceremony' and whose 'memory was failing'.
Subjects
Literary texts
Puberty and initiation
culture
Mescalero Apache
HRAF PubDate
2019
Region
North America
Sub Region
Southwest and Basin
Document Type
essay
Evaluation
Creator Type
Ethnologist
Document Rating
5: Excellent Primary Data
Analyst
Eleanor C. Swanson ; 1980
Field Date
1906
Coverage Place
Mescalero Indian Reservation, New Mexico, United States
Notes
By Pliny Earle Goddard
LCCN
10011191
LCSH
Mescalero Indians