Book
Preliminary report on the Lau group, Fiji
[s.n.] • [s.l.] • Published In 1924 • Pages:
By: Bryan, Edwin H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Bryan collected the information discussed in this article as a member of the Whitney South Sea Bird Expedition, July to October, 1924 to most of the forty islands of the Lau group. A topographical sketch map, corrected in the field, is furnished of each island. Information on the inhabitants is incidental but includes: the 1921 census of the population, names and location of settlements, cultivation and other occupations and location of archaeological sites.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Lau Fijians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Polynesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Natural Scientist
- 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
- Joan Steffens ; 1963
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1924
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- ca. 1920
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lau Islands, Fiji
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Edwin H. Bryan, Jr.
- Unpublished manuscript on file in the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum Library [1924]
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Fijians