Book
Tongan myths and tales
The Museum • Honolulu, Hawaii • Published In 1924 • Pages: 207
By: Gifford, Edward Winslow.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document contains a collection of Tongan oral traditions. The tales were collected from various archives and publications as well as from informants' recitations.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Traditional history
- Literature
- Literary texts
- Chief executive
- Executive household
- Mythology
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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
- Eleanor C. Swanson; 1977-1978
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1920-1921
- 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)
- Tonga
- NotesAdditional notes
- compiled by Edward Winslow Gifford
- 'Bayard Dominick Expedition. Publication no. 8'
- Only the section containing tales where the Tui Tonga is identified by individual name has been indexed for Traditional History. (173)
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 24012886
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tongans