MS 2012-04 Shigeru Kaneshiro field notes and photographs
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 2012-04
name: label: Creator
content: Kaneshiro, Shigeru, 1926-2008
place: label: Place
content: Caroline Islands
label: Place
content: Palau
label: Place
content: Micronesia
label: Place
content: Yap (Micronesia)
creator: label: Creator
content: Kaneshiro, Shigeru, 1926-2008
culture: label: Culture
content: Micronesians
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Shigeru Kaneshiro was born on September 9, 1926 in Aiea, Hawaii. Due to his fluency in Japanese and his training in anthropology at the University of Hawaii, he was appointed in 1950 as one of the first District Anthropologists in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. His first post was in Palau, and he was later transferred to Yap to study Yap and the outer islands. His publications include "Land tenure in the Palau Islands" and "A Caroline Islands Script," which he co-authored with Saul Riesenberg.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Boxe
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1950 and 1957
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated to NAA by William Alkire.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2012-04
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Field notes
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Folder list: [Field notebook - Caroline Islands], 1950; [Lamotrek notes], 1950; [Lamotrek photos], 1957; [Woleai islands notes], 1950; [Wolean islands genealogies], 1950
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Field notes
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contains Shigeru Kaneshiro's ethnographic field research in the Caroline Islands, particularly the Woleai islands and Lamotrek. His field notebook contains notes on Palau, Satawal, Elato, Fajalap [Faraulep?], Woleai islands, and Ifalik.
relatedmaterial: label: Other Archival Materials
content: Artifacts collected by Kaneshiro are held in the Anthropology Collections division.