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The Carolines Island Yap or Guap, according to the reports of Alfred Tetens and Johann Kubary
Journal des Museum Godeffroy • 1 • Published In 1873 • Pages: HRAF ms: 1-69 [original: 84-130 ]
By: Tetens, Alfred, Kubary, J. S. (Jan Stanislaw).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Dr. E. Gräffe prepared this article from reports by Tetens and Kubary. Also included is a short grammar of the Yap language and a vocabulary prepared by J.T. Blohm, an agent for a German trading firm. (Approximately one-third of the article deals with the Yap language.)
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Location
- Topography and geology
- Vocabulary
- Grammar
- Normal garb
- Settlement patterns
- Dance
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yapese
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Traveler
- 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
- 1865-1868, 1871
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1865-1868
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Alfred Tetens and Johann Kubary ; prepared by Dr. E. Gräffe
- Translation of: [Die Carolineninsel Yap oder Guap nach den Mittheilungen]
- Translated from the German in 1942 for the Yale Cross-Cultural Survey in connection with the Navy Pacific Islands Handbook Project
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 04003505
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yapese (Micronesian people)/Yap (Micronesia)