MS 2956 Ethnographic Data about Samoa
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content: NAA MS 2956
name: label: Collector
content: Safford, William Edwin, 1859-1926
label: Author
content: Rieman, George B.
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content: Steinberger, A. B. (Albert Barnes)
label: Author
content: Field, Isobel, 1858-1953
topic: label: Topic
content: History -- Samoa
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content: Music -- Samoa
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content: Dancing -- Samoa
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content: Games -- Samoa
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content: Amusements -- Samoa
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content: Samoan language
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content: Folklore -- Samoa
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content: Mythology -- Samoa
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content: Superstition -- Samoa
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content: Religion -- Samoa
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content: Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Samoa
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content: Marriage customs and rites -- Samoa
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content: Circumcision -- Samoa
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content: Birth customs -- Samoa
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content: Weapons systems -- Samoa
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content: War -- Samoa
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content: Perfumes -- Samoa
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content: Dyes and dyeing -- Samoa
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content: Matting -- Samoa
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content: Tattooing -- Samoa
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content: Wood-carving -- Samoa
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content: Tapa -- Samoa
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content: Handicraft -- Samoa
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content: Art -- Samoa
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content: Canoes and canoeing -- Samoa
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content: Agriculture -- Samoa
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content: Canoes -- Samoan
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content: Fishing -- Samoa
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content: Hunting -- Samoa
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content: Bridges -- Samoa
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content: Roads -- Samoa
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content: Transportation -- Samoa
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content: Pets -- Samoa
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content: Tools -- Samoa
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content: Villages -- Samoa
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content: Housing -- Samo
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content: Subsistence -- Samoa
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content: Food -- Samoa
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content: Decoration and ornament -- Samoa
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content: Clothing and dress -- Samoa
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content: Kinship -- Samoa
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content: Missionaries -- Samoa
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content: Language and languages -- Documentation
creator: label: Collector
content: Safford, William Edwin, 1859-1926
label: Author
content: Rieman, George B.
label: Author
content: Steinberger, A. B. (Albert Barnes)
label: Author
content: Field, Isobel, 1858-1953
culture: label: Culture
content: Polynesian
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 250 Pages
unitdate: label: Date
content: n.d
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2956
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Ethnographic data, principally on Samoa including: I. Samoa. geographical outline, III. History and Discovery. Arrival of missionaries. U.S. Exploring Expedition. An Episode in Samoan History, IV Regulative organization, the family, the clan, caste, division of labor, rights of property, V. Clothing, ornaments, ceremonial paraphernalia, VI. Food and its preparation, VII. Procurement of food, hunting and fishing, rearing and cultivation, VIII. Houses and villages, household utensils, pets, IX. Method of transportation, roads and bridges, canoes, X. Ornamental arts, tapa painting, wood carving, tattooing, necklace making, combs, XI. Useful arts, raw materials, mats and tapa-making, house building, canoe making, dyes, paints, perfumes and gums, XII. War and peace, XIII. Feasts and fonos, ceremonies attending birth, circumcision, tattooing, marriage, etc, Ceremonies of welcome, mortuary customs, XIV. Religion, ancient superstitions, the Taboo, Totemism, modern religion of the Samoans, Strict observance of Sunday, XV. Myths and traditions, the origin of Samoa and its people, animal myths, XVI. Grammatical structure of Polynesian languages, ceremonial language, comparative vocabularies, XVII. Amusements, games, music, XVIII. Samoa fauna, reptiles and fishes, XIX. Vocabulary of vernacular names of samoan fishes
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content: "Papalangee, or Uncle Sam in Samoa" by G. B. Rieman, U.S. Navy (Printed, n.d. (ca. 1872)), "Report upon Samoa, or the Navigator's Islands, Made to the Secretary of State,"by A.B. Steinberger Washington, 1874, "In Samoa with Stevenson! by Isobel Osbourne Strong, from Century Magazine, March 1902.