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The boats of the Tawi-Tawi Bajau, Sulu Archipelago, Philippines
Asian perspectives • 29 (1) • Published In 1990 • Pages: 51-88
By: Nimmo, Harry.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a description of Sama-Bajau watercraft, with particular focus on the variety of boats, boat-building arts, and sailing skills.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Boats
- Shipbuilding
- Dwellings
- Building interiors and arrangement
- Navigation
- Visual arts
- Water transport
- Settlement patterns
- Fishing
- Division of labor by gender
- Woodworking
- Lumbering
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Acculturation and culture contact
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Sama-Bajau
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast 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.
- Anthropologist
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem ; 2020
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1963-1967
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1930-1967
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tawi-Tawi province, Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Philippines
- NotesAdditional notes
- H. Arlo Nimmo
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 87-88)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 61043423
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bajau (Southeast Asian people)