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The stone monuments of the Khasi hills
Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britian and Ireland • 3 • Published In 1874 • Pages: 481-493
By: Clarke, C. B..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article describes the two types of Khasi monuments, horizontal and upright slabs, and their customary arrangements. The relative antiquity of these monuments is briefly discussed in terms of kinds of rock employed, sources where these slabs are obtained, workmanship and distribution. A brief commentary on the paper appears at the end of the article.
- 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.
- Unknown
- 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
- C. B. Clarke
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Khasi (Indic people)