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Author: Author's name as listed in Library of Congress records
Austen, Leo
Title:
Botabalu: a Trobriand chieftainess
Published in: if part or section of a book or monograph
Mankind -- Vol. 2
Published By: Original publisher
Mankind -- Vol. 2
1940. 270-273 p.
By line: Author's name as appearing in the actual publication
[by] Leo Austen
HRAF Publication Information: New Haven, Conn.:
Human Relations Area Files, 1995. Computer File
Culture: Culture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC) with the alphanumberic OWC identifier in parenthesis.
Trobriands (OL06)
Subjects: Document-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
Sacred objects and places (778);
Avoidance and taboo (784);
Ethnogeography (823);
Abstract: Brief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article consists mainly of the text of a chief's
proclamation lifting the taboo on a sacred spring. The proclamation summarizes the
legendary origin of the sacredness of this spring and gives the reason for the lifting of
the taboo. The opening paragraphs identify the chief in terms of his own
genealogy.
Document Number: HRAF's in-house numbering system derived from the processing order of documents
18
Document ID: HRAF's unique document identifier. The first part is the OWC identifier and the second part is the document number in three digits.
ol06-018
Document Type: May include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs or chapters/parts of monographs.
Journal Article
Language: Language that the document is written in
English
Field Date: The date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
1931-1935
Evaluation: In this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigene, and so on. The second part is 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
Government Official-5
Analyst: The HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection.
Arthur Fields
Coverage Date: The date or dates that the information in the document pertains to (often not the same as the field date).
not specified
Coverage Place: Location of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
Gumilababa village, Kiriwina Island, Papua New
Guinea
LCSH: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Trobriand Islanders
