Book
Tales and poems of Tonga
The Museum • Honolulu, Hawaii • Published In 1928 • Pages: 169
By: Collocott, E. E. V. (Ernest Edgar Vyvyan).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source, by a missionary and educator among the Tongans, is a collection of stories, poems, and songs. Collocott's aim was '… to allow the Tongan to interpret himself through the mouths of his story-tellers and bards' (p. 3). Some of the subjects covered in the collection are stories about places, relations with Polutu, and various culture-heroes; poetry which reflects rivalry between poets, about death, about marriage, about wars, and about places; and various songs. Collocott's research method involved the use and collection of texts combined with interviewing for interpretations of the texts. Lengthy notes containing interpretive information are located apart from the body of the text on pages 129-167.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Games
- Music
- Literature
- Literary texts
- Arranging a marriage
- Executive household
- Revolution
- Death
- Mythology
- Eschatology
- Ethnogeography
- Ethnozoology
- 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.
- Missionary
- 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
- none
- 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
- by E. E. V. Collocott
- Notes have been indexed for the same categories as the text plus additional categories where relevant.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 168-169)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 28031151
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tongans