Flower garden quilt by Mealii Kalama of Hawaii. Cotton applique, 89" x 81", ca. 1988. Kalama has received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Photograph by Dudley Smith, courtesy of the Denver Museum of Natural History. From the Masters of Traditional Arts DVD-ROM, produced by Alan Govenar and published by ABC-CLIO.
 

Download the Ethnographic Thesaurus

Full alphabetic listing: plain text (3.7 MB) | PDF (3.7 MB)
A full alphabetic listing of all indexing terms with all their references, scope notes, etc.

Full taxonomic listing: plain text (639 KB) | PDF (417 KB)
A full taxonomic (hierarchical) listing of all indexing terms that includes all the references and notes

KWOC Index: plain text (989 KB) | PDF (603 KB)
Alphabetized rotated index listing (Keyword-Out-of-Context, or KWOC) that allows access through all significant words in all index terms and their references.

XML version: download (1.7 MB)
The XML version will allow the thesaurus data to be shared across a variety of applications

Description of Ethnographic Thesaurus Display Formats in Downloadable Text Formats

The Ethnographic Thesaurus has two principal display formats - an alphabetic display, and a taxonomic display. In addition, a KWOC [Key Word Out of Context] Index Display search capability allows the user to obtain an alphabetical listing of every place that a specific word may be located in the thesaurus, regardless of its position in a phrase or reference.

Alphabetic Display

The alphabetic display is a full traditional thesaurus format. For each Ethnographic Thesaurus term, the display includes appropriate Scope Notes (SN), if necessary, to clarify how a term is used in the thesaurus; Used For references (UF) to indicate synonyms or similar terms that are non-preferred terms; Broader Terms (BT); Narrower Terms (NT); and Related Terms (RT) that provide cross-references to other facets.

Example of alphabetic display format:

TALL TALES
        SN	Fictional narratives that begin as narratives
		told as true but in which the exaggerations slowly
		increase until the story is no longer believable.
	UF	LIARS TALES
	BT	FOLK NARRATIVES
	RT	LIAR'S CONTESTS (Ldgb)

Taxonomic Display

The taxonomic display lists terms in the order of their conceptual significance using an alphabetic notational code which displays the hierarchy within subject categories, and includes all of the features of the full alphabetic display, including scope notes, where necessary, as well as Used for (UF) and Related term (RT) references. Broader term (BT) and Narrower term (NT) relationships are implicit in the taxonomic arrangement. A taxonomic thesaurus display format is sometimes also referred to as a hierarchical display.

Example of taxonomic display format (in truncated form without scope notes and all references to show taxonomic hierarchy; for full reference structure with scope notes, search "legends" in the ET):

Lhlhb		etiological tales
		SN	Fictional tales of origins.
		UF	aetiological tales
		BT	tales by category
		NT	natursage
		NT	pourquoi stories

Lhk     tall tales
            SN Fictional narratives that begin as narratives
               told as true but in which the exaggerations
               slowly increase until the story is no longer
               believable.
            UF liars tales
            UF lying tales
            UF windies
            UF yarns
            RT liars contests
            RT lie telling
            RT talking trash

KWOC Index Display

The KWOC (Key Word Out of Context) Index Display, also called Rotated KWOC Display, is a vital cross-reference and searching tool. It displays, in alphabetical order, every significant word of every term or phrase in the Ethnographic Thesaurus regardless of the word's position in a term or phrase, and regardless of its context in the thesaurus. Non-content words included in preferred terms or phrases, such as "the" or "of" are eliminated in the KWOC display.

Example:

FOLDING
	folding beds
	folding chairs
	folding knives
	paper  folding
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