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Aleut semaphore signals
American anthropologist • 43 • Published In 1941 • Pages: 422-427
By: Ransom, Jay Ellis.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
A short article describing a semaphore code devised by an Aleut in 1900 and now in use by the Aleuts. The author was a school teacher at Nikolski, Umnak Island.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Transmission of messages
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Aleut
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2007
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Arctic and Subarctic
- 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.
- Foreign Resident
- 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
- Leila S. Small ; 1950-1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1936-1938
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Umank Island, Alaska, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Jay Ellis Ransom
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17015424
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Aleuts