Date of Award
12-1983
Document Type
Thesis
Abstract
The focus of this research is comprised of two objectives. The first attempts to ethno-historically reconstruct the early historic culture of the Houma Indians of Louisiana based upon seventeenth and eighteenth century archival and documentary sources with attention being paid to such ethnographic aspects as Houma subsistence, social organization, and ceremonialism. The second objective, by way of utilizing additional historical documentation such as early cartographic evidence, predicts and locates historic Houma village sites. An archaeological examination and discussion of these sites is presented in terms of an attempt to diagnostically identify broad ethnic markers within the historic Houma material culture.
Recommended Citation
Guevin, Bryan L., "The Ethno-Archaeology of the Houma Indians" (1983). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. 8310.
https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/8310
DOI
10.31390/gradschool_disstheses.8310