Book
The island of stone money: Uap of the Carolines
J.B. Lippincott Company • Philadelphia • Published In 1910 • Pages:
By: Furness, William Henry.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Medium of exchange
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yapese
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- 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
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Doctor
- 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.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Amal Vinogradov ; 1964
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1903
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Federated States of Micronesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- by William Henry Furness, 3d … with illustrations from photographs by the author
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 1002001760
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yapese (Micronesian people)/Yap (Micronesia)