Book
The Lau Islands (Fiji) and their fairy tales and folk-lore
The Times Book Co., Ltd. • London • Published In 1918 • Pages:
By: St. Johnston, T. R..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph contains an assorted number of myths and legends of the Lau Islanders. They were collected and recorded by St. Johnston in the course of his tenure as a District Commissioner of the area. In the introductory chapter, Mr. St. Johnston speculates on the origin of the natives, their early migrations and seeks to assess their racial and cultural identity. A lengthy section is devoted to an eye-witness description of a traditional ceremony performed for visiting dignitaries. The last section of the book is taken up with an old chief's narration of the traditional history of one of the Lau islands, namely Lakeba.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Literature
- Traditional history
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Lau Fijians
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Polynesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Amal Vinogradov ; 1965
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lau Islands, Fiji
- NotesAdditional notes
- by T. R. St. Johnston, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S.
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Fijians