The Social and Political Systems of Central Polynesia, Bind 2The University Press, 1924 |
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Aana according ali'i ancestors animal apparently Ari'i Taimai ariki atua believed bird Bovis brother and sister Bülow Caillot called canoe ceremonies child clan coconut connection custom D'Urville daughter dictionary draw attention evidence exogamy father father's sister Fiji fish fono Gill gods Greeting head chief Ibid incarnate kava king Krämer lizard Malietoa Mangaia Manu'a marae Mariner marriage married matabule matrilineal descent mats matter meaning Moerenhout mother mother's brother Niue orator chiefs orero origin Papara Père A. C. perhaps person pigeon Polynesia Pomare priests Pritchard probably Ra'iatea rank Rarotonga refers regarded relationship Rivers Rotuma S.I. vol sacred Samoa Savai'i seems shark social group Society Islands speaking Stair statement Stuebel suggests taboo Tahiti tamaha Tangaroa term Teva Thomson Tikopia told Tonga totem tribe Tuamasanga tuiaana tuiatua tuitonga tulafale Turner turtle Upolu village district whilst wife woman
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Side 222 - ... eat. The god was supposed to avenge the insult by taking up his abode in that person's body, and causing to generate there the very thing which he had eaten, until it produced death. This class of genii, or tutelary deities, they called aitu fale, or gods of the house.
Side 409 - ... and without whose participation no act passed could be legal. He says that the title lavaka was a very old one1 and it appears in Baker's dictionary as that of the chief of Bea, a district at the western side of the inland sea of Tongatabu. The importance of this person is illustrated by the fact that his place at the kava circle was directly next to the tuikanokubolu, who was at the head of it2. The word "Lavaka" was evidently the title of a family of chiefs, and not a definitive term. If this...
Side 168 - Melanesian New Guinea, to see to what extent this right of appropriation has been found there. Codrington, after referring to the extraordinary rights of the vasu in Fiji, says that the corresponding right was much less conspicuous and important in the Melanesian islands west of Fiji ; though it was a matter of course that the nephew should look to his mother's brother for help of every kind, and that the uncle should look upon his sister's son as his special care1. Rivers, however, reports that...
Side 115 - ... the children had to be killed ; but if the inferior spouse was the father, this could be avoided by a ceremony at the temple, and I associate this latter statement with his reference to the killing of children — not all of them, but progressively until the inequality was removed. Williams says that if a woman of rank was united to a man of inferior grade the destruction of two, four or six infants was required to raise him to an equality with her ; and that when this had been effected, the...
Side 181 - Moulton said he believed that the derivation of the term was tama (a child), and ha (apparent). He said the son of the tamaha was called the tama-tauhala — the very tip-top, the end and consummation of all things, towards whom all ranks and titles converged. And if the tama-tauhala had a son, he was no mortal; he was the eiki — the god himself, the Lord par excellence, the Baal of the Baalim1.
Side 237 - ... attached to the end of his stick. Every man flew his pigeon, and then the whole circle looked like a place where pigeons were flocking round food or water. The scene soon attracted some wild pigeon ; and, as it approached the spot, whoever was next to it raised his net and tried to entangle it. He who got the greatest number of pigeons was the hero of the day, and honoured by his friends with various kinds of food, with which he treated his less successful competitors. Some of the pigeons were...
Side 437 - EASTER ISLAND It is said that in Easter Island the priests were simply wizards and sorcerers, who professed to have influence with evil spirits, and to be able to secure by incantations their co-operation in the destruction of an enemy8 ; also that they uttered the wishes of the gods oracularly, and declared the divine requirements of human sacrifice, and subsistence by which they themselves lived9. I have referred in a previous APF vol.
Side 130 - Thus the ultimate origin of exogamy, and with it of the law of incest — since exogamy was devised to prevent incest — remains a problem nearly as dark as ever"2.
Side 374 - We have seen that Salelesi was said to have been a chief, Leota a tulafale ali'i, and Taumasina a chief. Kramer refers to a jester, compared by him to Salelesi of the tuiatua, who (this jester) was a...
Side 165 - Another factor which might explain certain features of the relation between a woman and her brother's child is the practice of avoidance between brother and sister. When a child becomes aware of the fact that his father scrupulously avoids his sister, this might well lead to an emotion of awe on the part of the child in connection with its father's sister, which would account for the especial respect paid to this relative.