Nias (Indonesian people)
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- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2021005650
- info:lc/authorities/sh2021005650
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh2021005650#concept
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Variants
- Batu (Indonesian people)
- Nias Niassan (Indonesian people)
- Niasan (Indonesian people)
- Niassan (Indonesian people)
- Ono Niha (Indonesian people)
Broader Terms
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Halawa, T. Membuat kalabubu, 2011(book is about the kalabubu, a type of necklace worn by Nias men)
- found: Joshua Project website, July 1, 2021(Niassan, Nias; The Niassan, Nias have only been reported in Indonesia; alternate names: Batu; Nias; affinity bloc: Malay Peoples; people cluster: Batak-Nias of Sumatra; population: 1,021,000; language: Nias; primary religion: Christianity) - https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/13389
- found: Wikipedia, July 1, 2021(Nias people; the Nias people are an ethnic group native to Nias, an island off the west coast of North Sumatra, Indonesia; in the Nias language, the Nias people are known as Ono Niha, which literally means "descendants of human")
- found: Archives internationales d'ethnographie, v. 39 (1940), via Google books, July 1, 2021:p. 72 (the Nias people, especially those of South Nias are to a fairly high degree anthropologically pure; the Nias people who settled in the Batu Islands did not mix with Bughenese and Malays)
- found: Silliman journal, v. 21 (1974), via Google books, July 1, 2021:p. 105 (Niasan people; the Niasans considered themselves as the original and genuine people and superior to the other peoples in the world; this is the main idea in the term Ono Niha which means children of man, and others are regarded as the children of unoriginal man)
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- 2021-07-01: new
- 2021-09-15: revised
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