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Botabalu: a Trobriand chieftainess
Mankind • 2 • Published In 1940 • Pages: 270-273
By: Austen, Leo.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article consists mainly of the text of a chief's proclamation lifting the taboo on a sacred spring. The proclamation summarizes the legendary origin of the sacredness of this spring and gives the reason for the lifting of the taboo. The opening paragraphs identify the chief in terms of his own genealogy.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sacred objects and places
- Avoidance and taboo
- Ethnogeography
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Trobriands
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Melanesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- 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
- Arthur Fields
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1931-1935
- 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)
- Gumilababa village, Kiriwina Island, Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Leo Austen
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Trobriand Islanders