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The money of the Yapese
Deutsches kolonialblatt • 12 • Published In 1901 • Pages: HRAF ms: 1, 5 leaves [original: 870-872 ]
By: Senfft, Arno.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This brief article discusses the two main forms of Yap money: 'fä' (large circular stones with round holes hewed out in the center) and 'jar' (mother-of -pearl shells). The manufacture and transport of 'fä' are described and the use and value of 'jar' and 'fä' are compared. The 'mitemit,' ceremonial distribution of gifts and repayment of debts which occur after the death of a chief or rich man, is also described.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Medium of exchange
- Ethnobotany
- Lithic industries
- Gift giving
- Weight moving
- Price and value
- External trade
- 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.
- Government Official
- 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
- Helen Gunsher Bornstein; 1975
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1900
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900
- 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
- Arno Senfft
- Translation of: [Das Geld der Yaper]
- 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
- 10031110
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yapese (Micronesian people)/Yap (Micronesia)