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Mentawei myths
Bijdragen tot de taal-, land-, en volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië. 85 • S'gravenhage • Published In 1929 • Pages: 66-244
By: Loeb, Edwin M. (Edwin Meyer).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
After a very brief introduction to several aspects of Mentaweian ethnography, Loeb presents a series of Pageh (Pagai) mythological tales collected in large part by the German missionary Herr Börges and supplemented in the field by the author. These tales were used by Loeb as a form of text book in acquiring a reading knowledge of the Pageh dialect. The tales are presented first in native text followed by the English translation. The author visited the Mentawei Islands for five months beginning in the Spring of 1926.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Texts in the speaker's language
- Texts translated into english
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- 1926 (five months)
- 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)
- Mentawei Islands, west of Sumatra, Indonesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Edwin Loeb
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sn86000287
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Mentawai (Indonesian people)