Book
An account of the natives of the Tonga islands, in the South Pacific ocean: with an original grammar and vocabulary of their language
John Murray • London • Published In 1818 • Pages:
By: Mariner, William, Martin, John.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this second volume of Mariner's account of his captivity in the Tonga Islands, Mariner continues his narration of events and his eventual escape. After this he describes the system of ranking, professional classes, age and sex status, religious tenets, habits of the divine chiefs and priests; the moral state of the natives, religious rites, surgical skill, arts and manufactures, general habits, public festivals, songs and music, sports and games, and domestic habits. The work concludes with a grammar and a glossary, both Tonga-English and English-Tonga.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Glossary
- Personality traits
- Morbidity
- History
- Language
- Food preparation
- Diet
- Mats and basketry
- Recreational and non-therapeutic drugs
- Felted and other non-interworked fabrics
- Body alterations
- Recreation
- Music
- Literary texts
- Musical and theatrical productions
- Classes
- Districts
- Chief executive
- Sickness
- Death
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Tongans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2006
- 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.
- Foreign Resident
- 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
- Marlene Martin; 1977-1978
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1806-1810
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1777-1810
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Tonga
- NotesAdditional notes
- Comp. and arr. from the extensive communications of Mr. William Mariner, several years resident in those islands. By John Martin
- [volume 2]
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tongans