Ethnology of Tongareva

Contents

• • [covers]
  • [titlepage]
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
• Ethnology of Tongareva
  • Introduction
    • Acknowledgments
    • Geography
    • Contact with Western Culture
    • People
    • Language
  • Social Organization
    • Traditional History
    • The Genealogical Record
    • Blood Relationship Terms
    • The Biological Family
    • Rank and Title
    • Authority and Law
    • Warfare
    • Property
    • Land Settlement
    • Social Observances
  • Sickness and Death
  • Myths and Religion
    • The Gods
    • Religious Procedure
  • Houses
    • Kinds and Uses
    • Common Dwelling House
    • The Pasaka
    • The Hare Pou
    • House Furniture
  • Cooking
    • Methods
    • Utensils
  • Foods
    • Variety
    • Flesh Foods
    • Coconut
    • Hala (Pandanus)
    • General Observances
  • Plaiting
    • [section]
    • The Process
    • Coconut Sheets, Screens, and Mats
    • Lauhala Mats
    • Baskets
  • Clothing and Adornment
  • Stonework
    • Materials
    • Paths, Wharves, and Fish Ponds
    • House Foundations
    • Maraes
    • Stone Circles
    • Graves
    • Adzes
  • Canoes
    • Construction
    • Parts of the Canoe
  • Fishing
    • Methods
    • Nets
    • Lines
    • Hooks
    • Comparisons
  • Weapons
    • Spears
    • Clubs
    • Stones
  • The Stars and Calendar
    • Legend of Maahu and Maui
    • The Year
    • The Nights of the Moon
  • Literature Cited
  • Plate Legends
    • Plate 1.—Preparing Roro and Husking Coconuts
    • Plate 2.—Double Wall Screen and Oven Cover
    • Plate 3.—Sitting Mat and Tupono Basket
    • Plate 4.—Coconut Leaf Baskets, Eye Shade, and Perineal Band
    • Plate 5.—Marae Pillars
    • Plate 6.—Features of Maraes
    • Plate 7.—Marae Platforms
    • Plate 8.—Bonito Hooks and Drinking Bowls
    • [section]

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Title: Ethnology of Tongareva

Author: Te Rangi Hiroa (Sir Peter Henry Buck)

Publication details: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, April 1932

Part of: Tidal Pools: Digitized Texts from Oceania for Samoan and Pacific Studies

This text is the subject of: Victoria University of Wellington Library Catalogue

Keywords: Historical Māori and Pacific Islands

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