Book

Notes on Tongan ethnology

The Museum • (9) • Published In 1930 • Pages: 20

By: Whitcombe, J. D..

Abstract

This source is a miscellany of information, which the author published, hoping that although it is 'incomplete and scattered, may prove valuable for reference' (p. 3). The material consists of brief notes on a number of topics and four word lists. The topics include: house building, canoe building, methods of fishing, uses of the coconut palm, varieties of coconut palms, children's games, women's clothing, the origin of the name of the capital: Nukualofa, and a native account of the transfer of some property. The word lists cover medicinal uses of plants, words for the parts of the human body, words related to disease and medicine, and a list of names of yams grown in Tonga.

HRAF PubDate

2006

Region

Oceania

Sub Region

Polynesia

Document Type

Book

Evaluation

Creator Type

Educator

Document Rating

3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent

Analyst

Martin J. Malone; 1978

Field Date

no date

Coverage Date

not specified

Coverage Place

Tonga

Notes

J. D. Whitcombe

LCCN

unk82076916

LCSH

Tongans