book chapter
A new Pacific Ocean script
Man • 14 • Published In 1914 • Pages:
By: Brown, J. Macmillan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In July 1913, Professor Brown paid a visit to the reef island of Woleai, where one of the chiefs squatted and wrote a sentence in the script of the island. Later on, Mr. Brown received a full list of Woleai characters. The Woleai script is syllabic, and the author maintains that the script which, in 1913, was known only to five men is probably a relic of a wide usage in the archipelago, where 'it must have belonged the ruling class of an empire of some extent.'
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Historical reconstruction
- Writing
- 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.
- 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
- AN ; 1950-1956; Teferi A. Adem 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1913
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1913
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Woleai, Woleai Region, Federated States of Micronesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- J. Macmillan Brown
- This document consists of excerpts
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sf 80000548
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Caroline Islands--Social life and customs/Micronesians--Social life and customs