book chapter
A Typhoon in the western Carolines: the devastation of the Woleai Island Group
Deutsches kolonialblatt • 18 • Published In 1907 • Pages: 567-573
By: Born, L..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This report of the typhoon of March 29, 1907, which devastated the Woleai Island group, is composed of three sections. Pages 567-572 by Dr. Born, the government doctor stations at Jap, deal with his eyewitness account of the typhoon at Woleai and the adjustment of the natives to it. The second section, pp. 572-573, is the report of Captain Martens of the government schooner 'Ponape' which had left Dr. Born at Woleai and which was driven away by the typhoon. Section III, pp. 573-577, is the report of the district official Fritz, Saipan, April 15, of his trip to inspect the results of the typhoon and the government measures undertaken for the relief of the natives.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Climate
- Topography and geology
- History
- Port facilities
- Government regulation
- Disasters
- 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
- 1907
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1907
- 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, et al.
- Translation of: [Ein Taifun in den West-Karolinen: Die Verwüstung der Oleai-Inselgruppe]
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 10031110
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Caroline Islands--Social life and customs/Micronesians--Social life and customs