Book
Seventeen years among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo: a record of intimate association with the natives of the Bornean jungles
Seeley & Co., Ltd. • London, England • Published In 1911 • Pages:
By: Gomes, Edwin H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Gomes was an English missionary who spent many years in Sarawak during the period 1890-1910. This book is a general account of Dyak life and customs, interspersed with Gomes' reminiscences. The book contains chapters on Dyak character, manner of life, social life, life cycle, war and head-hunting, religion, sports, music, folk-lore, and the future of the Sea Dyak (from the point of view of missionary activities). Throughout, Gomes has not hesitated to make use of other published materials on the Dyak. In particular he has used 2: Howell, 4: Roth and 5: Roth, of this file, mainly for descriptions of pregnancy, warfare, head-hunting, infanticide, and cemeteries. These sections have not been indexed in this book. In addition, he makes acknowledged use of the entire article on the contents of a Dyak medicine chest by Bishop Hose. This book is well written and contains much useful information in addition to the above.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Culture summary
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Iban
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Timothy J. O'Leary
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1890
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1890-1910
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sarawak, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Edwin H. Gomes ; with an introduction by the Reverend John Perham
- Includes index
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ibans (Bornean people)/Sea Dyaks