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The Bird Cult of Easter Island
Folklore • 28 (4) • Published In 1917 • Pages: 337-355
By: Routledge, Scoresby, Mrs., b. 1866.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a detailed reconstruction of the socially and religiously significant Bird Cult ceremony of finding the first egg each year of the [n]tara[/n] (sooty tern) on the islet of Motu Nui.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Dwellings
- Settlement patterns
- Status, role, and prestige
- Spirits and gods
- Sacred objects and places
- Prophets and ascetics
- Congregations
- 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
- 1600-1868
- 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
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 17028740
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Easter Island