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An Account of the inhabitants of the Poggy or Nassau Islands
Asiatick researches • 6 • Published In 1799 • Pages: 77-91
By: Crisp, John.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This account, written by an Englishman, is one of the earliest records of contact between European and Mentaweian cultures. Crisp's observations on the inhabitants and environment of the Poggy or Nassau Islands covers geography, flora and fauna, physical anthropology, food and clothing, weapons, religion, disposal of the dead, inheritance, marriage, and tattooing. The document concludes with a vocabulary listing of some 85 native words.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Observation in research
- Geography
- Ethos
- Vocabulary
- Diet
- Normal garb
- Body alterations
- Dwellings
- Weapons
- Burial practices and funerals
- General character of religion
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Mentawaians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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.
- Traveler
- 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
- John Beierle ; 1999
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1792 (one month)
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1792
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Poggy or Nassau Islands, off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- By John Crisp
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mentawai (Indonesian people)