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Notes on the Khasis, Syntengs, and allied tribes inhabiting the Khasi and Jaintia Hills District in Assam
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal • 73 (4) (3) • Published In 1904 • Pages: 57-74 , plates
By: Gurdon, Philip Richard Thornhagh.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Gurdon, Superintendent of Ethnology in Assam including the part that later became Meghalaya State, gives an excellent, concise resume of the Khasis and allied tribes of Assam. In this brief article, he describes adequately some characteristics of their language.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Khasi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- 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.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Helen Takacs ; 1956
- 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)
- Khasi and Jaintia Hills District in Meghalaya, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- Major P. R. T. Gurdon
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sv 90026719
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Khasi (Indic people)