Gilbert Islands
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Grant, Robert W.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Robert W. Grant papers and photographs
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Notebooks
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1944
container: label: Container
content: Box 2
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.1975-30, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Notebooks
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Arranged loosely by subject.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Volume I consists of five parts: Grant's introduction to the collection, a discussion of the culture of the Gilbertese  and the effects of the missionary effort in the area, comments on the photographs in Volume II, an account of an excursion to the Catholic Mission in the islands entitled "Gilbertese Sisters at Tea," an article - "St. Michael's School" - which includes photogrpahs of the school and students. Volume II includes aerial views of Tarawa as well as photographs of such activities as fishing, dancing, and sports. Also, everyday activities, ornamentation, dress, homes, villages, shells, weaving, and musical instruments. The comments in Volume I relating to the photographs in Volume II also mention some of the cultural habits of the Gilbertese as told to Grant by a native. Additional Material can be found in series 16,17, and 18.