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The Carolines Island Yap or Guap, according to the reports of Alfred Tetens and Johann Kubary

Journal des Museum Godeffroy1Published 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)