Book
Samoan material culture
The Museum • (75) • Published In 1930 • Pages: 1 l., xi, [1], [3]-724
By: Buck, Peter Henry (Te Rangi Hīroa).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document is a fairly complete catalog of Samoan material culture. However, some relevant material on Samoan social structure is included. Buck does not provide a great deal on those aspects of material culture which are adequately covered in other documents. He deals intensively with housing, utensils, food plants and animals, kava, plaiting, clothing, bark cloth, tools, boats, fishing and hunting gear, games, weapons, ornaments, and tattooing. Distributional comparisons of Samoan material culture with that of other Oceanic groups occur frequently throughout the text, and the concluding chapter consists of a summary of the material cultural position of Samoa in Polynesia. This section (pp. 661-680) has been marked for both OU8 Samoa and OS2 Polynesians. Fifty-six end plates are described in a section of the text which precedes them. A paginated index follows the plates. The author spent six months in Samoa in 1927-28, distributed as follows: three weeks in Tutuila, two months in Manua, and over two months in Savaii and Upolu. The author also makes extensive use of the literature on Samoa and on Polynesia as a whole.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Comparative evidence
- Prehistory
- Cordage
- Felted and other non-interworked fabrics
- Mats and basketry
- Normal garb
- Paint and dye manufacture
- Dwellings
- General tools
- Food preparation
- Personal grooming
- Boats
- Shipbuilding
- Fishing gear
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Samoans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Polynesia
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- William W. Stein ; 1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1927-1928
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1927-1928
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Western Samoa
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Te Rangi Hiroa (P. H. Buck)
- 'Literature cited': p. 681-682
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 31012925
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ethnology--Samoan Islands/Samoa