book chapter
String figures from Fiji and western Polynesia
The Museum • Honolulu, Hawaii • Published In 1927 • Pages: 3-10, 61-70, 88
By: Hornell, James.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source concerns string figures collected by the author during an expedition to Fiji and Polynesia in 1925. Detailed descriptions for 9 string figures from Tonga are provided. In addition there is some information concerning the comparative distributions of string games in the Fiji-Polynesia area.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Games
- Comparative evidence
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tongans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2006
- 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 chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnographer
- Natural Scientist
- 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
- Eleanor C. Swanson; 1978
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1925
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1925
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tonga
- NotesAdditional notes
- by James Hornell
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 88)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 27024334
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tongans