Book
Proverbial sayings of the Tongans
Bishop Museum Press • VIII (3) • Published In 1922 • Pages: 37-154
By: Collocott, E. E. V. (Ernest Edgar Vyvyan), Havea, John.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a collection of 633 Tongan proverbs, pieces of folk wisdom and commonly used phrases. It contains the Tongan phrase, a close, nearly literal translation, and a discussion of its meaning and context of use. It includes proverbs on over thirty topics, such as farming and plants; food; manufactures; animals; ships and sailing; weather; geography; gods and religion; courtship, marriage and domestic relations; disease, medicine, death, and burial; kava; war; and sports and games. Since the style of many of the proverbs is metaphorical, it has often been difficult to index them for their exact intention. Users are recommended to try a variety of subjects when searching.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Boats
- Navigation
- Games
- Athletic sports
- Literary texts
- Arranging a marriage
- Nuptials
- Warfare
- Burial practices and funerals
- Mythology
- Spirits and gods
- Ethnometeorology
- Ethnogeography
- Ethnobotany
- 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 TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- Indigenous Person
- 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
- Martin J. Malone; 1978
- 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)
- Tonga
- NotesAdditional notes
- by E. E. V. Collocott and John Havea
- All of the proverbs are indexed for the subjects Literary Texts (539)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 22022368
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tongans