Ethnology of Tongareva
Contents
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Contents
Page | |
Introduction | 3 |
Acknowledgments | 3 |
Geography | 4 |
Contact with Western culture | 6 |
People | 9 |
Language | 10 |
Social organization | 15 |
Traditional history | 15 |
Genealogical record | 17 |
Blood relationship terms | 26 |
The biological family | 31 |
Sex concepts | 31 |
Birth | 32 |
Puberty customs | 33 |
Marriage | 35 |
The household | 39 |
Rank and title | 43 |
Authority and law | 51 |
Warfare | 54 |
Property | 57 |
Land settlement | 60 |
Villages | 60 |
The spread of population | 62 |
Social observances | 71 |
Individual greetings | 71 |
Reception of visitors | 72 |
Dances | 77 |
Hospitality | 79 |
Sickness and death | 80 |
Myths and religion | 85 |
The gods | 85 |
Religious procedure | 87 |
Communication with the gods | 87 |
Ceremonial pattern | 90 |
The turtle ceremony | 91 |
Houses | 93 |
Kinds andu ses | 93 |
Common dwelling house | 93 |
The pasaka | 97 |
The hare pou | 99 |
House furniture | 99 |
Cooking | 100 |
Methods | 100 |
Utensils | 101 |
Foods | 106 |
Variety | 106 |
Flesh foods | 107 |
Coconut | 108 |
Significance | 108 |
Botanical features | 108page [ii] |
The uto | 110 |
Stages of growth | 111 |
The fluid | 113 |
Foods derived from the flesh | 113 |
The husk | 115 |
Husking implements | 116 |
Carrying pole and climbing bandage | 117 |
Hala | 118 |
General observances | 119 |
Meals | 119 |
Feast for visitors | 119 |
Angling for visitors | 122 |
Sex differentiation | 123 |
Plaiting | 123 |
The process | 124 |
Coconut sheets, screens, and mats | 128 |
Lauhala mats | 130 |
Baskets | 130 |
Midrib basket | 130 |
Twilled baskets | 131 |
Cordage | 136 |
Comparisons | 137 |
Clothing and adornment | 138 |
Stonework | 145 |
Materials | 145 |
Paths, wharves, and fish ponds | 145 |
House foundations | 147 |
Maraes | 148 |
Distribution | 148 |
Ground plan | 150 |
Pillars | 153 |
Curb stones | 156 |
Platforms | 157 |
Pavements and marae houses | 157 |
Individual maraes | 159 |
Function of the marae | 177 |
Comparisons | 178 |
Stone circles | 180 |
Graves | 182 |
Adzes | 186 |
Canoes | 189 |
Construction | 189 |
Parts of the canoe | 191 |
Fishing | 197 |
Methods | 197 |
Groping | 197 |
Snaring | 197 |
Sweeping | 198 |
Driving | 198 |
Spearing | 199 |
Angling | 200 |
Nets | 201 |
Lines | 202page [iii] |
Hooks | 202 |
Parts of the hook | 202 |
One-piece shell hooks | 203 |
Composite hooks | 204 |
Comparisons | 211 |
Weapons | 212 |
Spears | 212 |
Clubs | 213 |
Stones | 214 |
The stars and calendar | 215 |
Legend of Maahu and Maui | 215 |
The year | 215 |
Nights of the moon | 216 |
Literature cited | 221 |
Plate legends | 223 |