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Survey of the village and carved rocks of Orongo, Easter Island, by the Mana Expedition
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain & Ireland • 50 • Published In 1920 • Pages: 425-451
By: Routledge, Scoresby, Mrs., b. 1866.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article provides a detailed description of the remains of the village and carved rocks of Orongo, where Easter Islanders held their Bird Cult ceremony. Each structure is measured and described in detail. The text is supplemented by photographs and sketches.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Recording and collecting in the field
- Topography and geology
- Prehistory
- Dwellings
- Representative art
- Visual arts
- 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
- article
- 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
- Robert Lee ; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1914-1915
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1600-1869
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Orongo, Easter Island, Valparaíso, Chile
- NotesAdditional notes
- By Mrs. Scoresby Routledge
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- unk82052056
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Easter Island