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Further notes on the rude stone monuments of the Khasi hill tribes
Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britian and Ireland • 5 • Published In 1876 • Pages: 37-41 , plates
By: Godwin-Austen, H. H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document contains brief comments and descriptions of megalithic stone monuments observed by Godwin-Austin in the Khasi hills, along with photographs of the structures. Also included are a sketch and comments on cairns observed in the same area. Godwin-Austin, a British Army major, was at the time Deputy Superintendent Topographical Survey of India.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Prehistory
- Mnemonic devices
- 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
- Irving Rosenthal ; John Beierle ; 1970-1974
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1872
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1872-1873
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Khasi Hills in Meghalaya, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- H. H. Godwin-Austen
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Khasi (Indic people)