book chapter
A Sea Dyak dictionary: in alphabetical parts, with examples and quotations showing the use and meaning of words
The American Mission Press • Singapore • Published In 1903 • Pages:
By: Howell, William, Bailey, D. J. S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Only the grammatical synopsis and the appendix are included here. The latter includes translations of Iban proverbs, riddles, songs, invocations and prayers, fables, and examples of conversational and explanatory styles; and Iban vocabulary for the bodily parts, ornaments and costumes, trees, houses, boats, measurements, money, fines, and human ailments. The central section of the work is a lexicon with generally brief explanations of the terms included. However, from time to time, a certain term is given an extended explanation, e.g. the terms for gods and festivals, containing ethnographic data. Since this material is also contained in other works included the Iban file, the dictionary section was not processed. The entire work was published in sections between 1900 and 1903. The authors were Protestant missionaries with long experience in the Iban area.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Grammar
- Literary texts
- 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 chapter
- 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
- Robert Lee
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1900
- 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)
- Sarawak, Malaysia
- NotesAdditional notes
- William Howell and D. J. S. Bailey
- Only pp. i-ix and pp. 1-24 of the appendix are included
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ibans (Bornean people)/Sea Dyak