Book
The island of stone money: Uap of the Carolines
J.B. Lippincott Company • Philadelphia • Published In 1910 • Pages:
By: Furness, William Henry.
Abstract
This source is a discursive personal account of a doctor's visit to Yap in 1903. Extensive sections are included on Yap dwellings, bachelor houses, personal ornamentation and jewelry, songs and dances, mediums of exchange and burial rites. A long if hazy account is given of Yap religious beliefs, methods of divination, role of the soothsayer and one version of the natives' creation myth. The last third of the book is devoted to Yap grammar and vocabulary.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2019
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Micronesia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Doctor
- Document Rating
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- Analyst
- Amal Vinogradov ; 1964
- Field Date
- 1903
- Coverage Place
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Notes
- by William Henry Furness, 3d … with illustrations from photographs by the author
- LCCN
- 1002001760
- LCSH
- Yapese (Micronesian people)/Yap (Micronesia)