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The manufacture of gongs in Semarang
Indonesia • 19 • Published In 1975 • Pages: 127-172
By: Jacobson, Edward, van Hasselt, J. H., Toth, Andrew.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source contains a thorough description of gong making in Semarang in 1906. Included is information on casting, shaping, and some slight data on the production costs and trade patterns involved in gong manufacture. The verbal descriptions are enhanced by a number of photographs of the process of gong manufacture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Art and recreational supplies industries
- Musical instruments
- Metallurgy
- Special tools
- Production and supply
- External trade
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Javanese
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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
- Eleanor C. Swanson ; Jan Simpson ; 1982
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Semarang in north-central Java, Indonesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Edw. Jacobson and J. H. van Hasselt ; translated and with an introduction by Andrew Toth
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 98646425
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Javanese (Indonesian people)