book chapter
Some observations of an ethnographic nature concerning the Woleai Islands
Mitteilungen aus den deutschen schutzgebieten mit benutzung amtlicher quellen … • 17 • Published In 1904 • Pages: 175-191
By: Born, L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Born visited Woleai as a government official. In his report he speaks of the people as culturally Central Carolinian. He mentions their political dependence on Yap, and their trips to other islands for trade. The article is well organized and in it Born deals briefly with cultural traits such as birth, death, magic, fishing methods, diet, canoes, house types, cleanliness, clothing, lack of art and music, weaving, and tattooing.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Descriptive somatology
- Traditional history
- Fishing
- Food preparation
- Diet
- Alcoholic beverages
- Normal garb
- Ornament
- Body alterations
- Dwellings
- Outbuildings
- Shipbuilding
- Exchange transactions
- Boats
- Navigation
- Community structure
- Taxation and public income
- Sexual stimulation
- Postnatal care
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Woleai Region
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Micronesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- 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
- MR ; Katherine Schlesinger ; 1950-1956 ; Teferi A. Adem 2005;
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1903
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1903
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Woleai Region, Federated States of Micronesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Born
- Translation of: [Einige Beobachtungen ethnographischer Natur über die Oleai-Inseln]
- This document consists of excerpts
- Translated for the files prior to 1950
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 15011419
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Caroline Islands--Social life and customs/Micronesians--Social life and customs