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Folk stories from the northern Solomons
Folk-lore • 43 • Published In 1932 • Pages: 61-96
By: Blackwood, Beatrice.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Stories from the Tinputz of Kurtatchi Village and the Buka of Petats Island found in this document are divided into the following groups: culture-hero stories, culture origin stories, natural history stories, real-life stories, animal stories, animal association stories, transformation stories, stories about the spirits of the dead, stories about the supernatural forest creatures called [n]Pinari[\n] and [n]Tukis[/n], and miscellaneous tales. Commentary is provided on the distribution of similar stories among surrounding peoples. Information on mythology and folk beliefs is also presented.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Verbal arts
- Mythology
- Spirits and gods
- Ethnometeorology
- Ethnozoology
- Texts translated into english
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tinputz
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2015
- 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
- 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
- Robert Lee ; 1958
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1929-1930
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1929-1930
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Island of Petats and Kurtatchi Village, North Bougainville District, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- Beatrice Blackwood
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 96)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17028740
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ethnology--Solomon Islands