Book
Tongan astronomy and calendar
Bishop Museum Press • VIII (4) • Published In 1922 • Pages: 155-173
By: Collocott, E. E. V. (Ernest Edgar Vyvyan).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a brief account of Tongan knowledge of astronomy and time reckoning. Aboriginal navigation depended upon the stars, but today, the compass has allowed most star lore to be forgotten. The description of the reckoning of time includes the names of the hours, days, and months, and the phases of the moon. The list of the 13 Tongan months also gives a small amount of information on the activities, mainly agricultural, of the different parts of the year.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Navigation
- Mythology
- Ordering of time
- Ethnometeorology
- 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
- 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
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 23015102
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Tongans