Book
Te Pito te Henua, known as Rapa Nui, commonly called Easter Island, South Pacific Ocean
U. S. Govt. Print. Off. [etc.] • Washington • Published In 1899 • Pages: 689-723
By: Cooke, George Henry, Safford, William Edwin.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is an account of a trip taken to Easter Island to secure specimens of statues for the Smithsonian Institution. The first portion of the account deals almost entirely with routines followed by the expedition. The remainder describes the topography and vegetation of the island, population estimates, diseases, physical characteristics, and some cultural traits, including information on house types, marriage practices, mutilation, clothing, cannibalism, and funeral rites. There are brief references to changes that have occurred since European contact. A vocabulary is provided.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Observation in research
- Topography and geology
- Demography
- History and culture change
- Vocabulary
- Water supply
- Dwellings
- Representative art
- Visual arts
- Marriage
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Rapa Nui
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- 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.
- Physician
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Betty Potash ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1886
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1886
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Easter Island, Valparaíso, Chile
- NotesAdditional notes
- By George H. Cooke
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 14019894
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Rapanui language
- Mohican (Steamer)
- Easter Island