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Trobriand Island clans and chiefsarticle 1956 • Watson, Lepani
Trobriands • Oceania > Melanesia
This brief article consists of a typescript handed to Murray Groves, an Oxford anthropologist, in Port Moresby in 1955 by Watson, who was a native Trobriand Islander. The manuscript consists of a ranking of the kinds of chiefs, with their titles, a s...