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On the stone monuments of the Khasi hill tribes, and on some of the peculiar rites and customs of the people

Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britian and Ireland1Published In 1872 • Pages: 122-143 , plates

By: Godwin-Austen, H. H..

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Major Godwin-Austen, Deputy Superintendent Topographical Survey of India, discusses several earlier descriptios of Khasi monuments and funerary customs. He describes the monuments and their distribution in the areas peripherial to the Khasi groups. A discussion by various members of the Institute appears at the end of his paper.
SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Miscellaneous structures
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)
Meghalaya, India
NotesAdditional notes
Major H. H. Godwin-Austen
LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
Khasi (Indic people)