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...lling” (p.2). Secondly, from the vantage point of Hawaiian oral narrative the book directs the reader into similar material from peoples elsewhere in Polynesia who are closely related to the Hawaiians, reminding him of relevant narratives from areas west of Polynesia and occasionally even east of Hawaii. The southern Pacific comparison Beckwith offers as “an important link...

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...book provide students of pre-European Hawaii with the most authoritative text and translation of the Kumulipo, it also brings to anyone interested in Polynesia a profound glimpse into the creative depths of the pre-European Hawaiian mind.”...

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...lished in 1951. Hawaiian Mythology should be consulted in relation to the later book, for it thoroughly investigates in both the Hawaiian and a wider Polynesian setting many gods, goddesses, and cosmic personifications who also appear in the Kumulipo genealogy. To keep the poem in proper focus the later book usually describes them only tersely....

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...kea. 117 --Xxii. Maui The Usurper128 -- Xxiii. The Dedication. 137 -- Xxiv. The Genealogies 140 Xxv. Hawaiian Accounts Of Creation. 153 --Xxvi. Other Polynesian Accounts Of Creation. 160 -- Xxvii. Ceremonial Birth Chants In Polynesia. 175 -- Conclusion. 181 --...

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...onunciation may to some extent be altered etc. These changes may be produced by time, accident, culture or neglect. Most if not all the dialects of Polynesia appear to have had the same origin, which, in all probability, was the Malayan. As the Islands of the great Pacific Ocean, constituting Polynesia, are many and far separated, it is reasonable to suppose that their ...

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...d series of the Fornander Collection of Hawaiian Folklore, in its varied character, presents valuable features for antiquarian and ethnic students of Polynesia in general and Hawaii in particular. The papers included in Part I, mostly the result of S. N. Haleole’s researches in the work and workings of the Sorcery priesthood, is a revelation of the power and influence o...

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...píing—Kite Flying—Surf-Riding—Dancing—Ko-nane—Cat's Cradle—The Puzzle—Game of Koi —Arrow-Slinging—Cock-Fighting -- 202 -- Source and Migration of the Polynesian Race -- 222 -- Traditional Hawaiian History -- 239 -- Hawaiian Origins: Comparative Traditions Viti—Fiji—New Zealand—Tonga Islands— Marquesas: -- 258 -- Legend of Hawaii-Loa -- 266 -- The Story of Kahahana -- 282 -...

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...of Doctor Dolittle (1920), the first of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up treating people after Polynesia, his parrot, teaches him animal languages. His fame in the animal kingdom spreads throughout the world and soon he sets off to cure a monkey epidemic in Africa, finding all sorts of exciting adventures on the way. T...

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...of a good working collection, having been recently enlarged by the addition of Dr. W. D. Westervelt's fine library of books relating to Hawaii and Polynesia....

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...re available, are covered in more detail than other places. Moloka i, for example, is extremely well treated, Kaua i least well. The Hawaiians, like Polynesians in other areas, considered themselves very much a unified whole, and they loved to express in sayings the eastern and western limits (never the northern and southern) of their domain, usually with reference to the...

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...is. 253 -- Words of non-Hawaiian origin and names of streets and buildings. 263 -- Connotative values of place names. 266 -- Names found elsewhere in Polynesia. 277 -- Representation of the lexicon and the grammar in the place names. 280 -- References. 281 --...

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...uch as the Blackfoot and Illinois); some nations in the Philippines, Indonesia and Polynesia and, in west Africa, in Cameroon, Ghana, Mali and Nige... ...an invention. The USA was preceded by the Aztecs, ancient China, feudal Japan, the Polynesian islands, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Ca...

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...s) 76 Faroe Islands 77 Fiji 78 Finland 79_ France 81 French Guiana 83 French Polynesia 84 Gabon 85 Gambia, The 87 Gaza Strip (see West Bank and Gaza S... ...ality: noun Cook Islanders); adjective Cook Islander Ethnic divisions: 81.3% Polynesian (full blood), 7.7% Polynesian and European, 7.7% Polynesian an... ...: Bassas da India, Clip- perton Island, Europa Island, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French South- ern and Antarctic Lands, Glorioso Islands, Guade... ...l Party of Guiana (PNPG), Michael Alain 83 French Guiana (continued) French Polynesia Communists: Communist party member- ship negligible Member of: ... ...5,683 (July 1987), average annual growth rate 2.84% Nationality: noun French Polynesian(s); adjective French Polynesian Ethnic divisions: 78% Polynesi... ...ee great phosphate rock islands in the Pacific (others are Makatea in French Polynesia and Nauru) People Population: 66,441 (July 1987), average annua... ...Pacific (others are Banaba or Ocean Island in Kiribati and Makatea in French Polynesia) People Population: 8,748 (July 1987), average annual growth ra... ...r 60% Roman Catholic, 30% Protestant, 10% other Language: French; Melanesian-Polynesian dialects Labor force: 50,469 (1980 est); Javanese and Tonkines... ...riod; immigrant labor now coming from Wallis and Futuna, Vanuatu, and French Polynesia; est. 8% unemployment Government Official name: Territory of Ne...

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... Market The Edge of Waikiki Pikake Terrace Splash Bar & Bento Creation - A Polynesian Journey beachhouse at the moana the veranda breakfast the verand... ...ominican Republic El Salvador • Estonia • Fiji • Finland • France • French Polynesia • Germany • Greece • Guatemala Hong Kong • Hungary • India • Ind... ...rld. ASTRONOMY World’s best place to study the Universe In ancient times, Polynesian voyagers used navigational knowledge they gained from observin... ... and the oceans Building on the rich cultural heritage of the seafaring Polynesians, Hawai‘i has become a leader in advanced ocean technology. An... ...sia. ❏ HAWAI‘I: The Islands’ remarkable cultural diversity, traditional Polynesian hospitality and great natural beauty make people want to atten... ...NY L 84 APEC 2011 · HAWAII BUSINESS A common thread ties the ancient Polynesians who frst set foot on these Islands to the watermen of today’s ... ...olynesians who frst set foot on these Islands to the watermen of today’s Polynesian Voyaging Society, who navigate the eternal, ever-changing Paci... ...c Island and Hawai‘i immigrant life. Be sure to explore the magnifcent Polynesian and Hawaiian Halls and the museum’s newest addition, the Richar...

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...ego, which proved to be a coral island, lagoon shaped, and one of the numerous Polynesian group. No landing was made, and thereafter several islands w... ...markable island in the Pacific Ocean. Although considered as belonging to the Polynesian group, it is so far isolated that there is no other island i... ...five hundred miles of it, standing as it does midway between South America and Polynesia proper, and yet it has three extinct volcanoes which rear the... ...stone images only one has any plausibility, viz.: That Easter Island, like all Polynesia, is a remnant of a submerged continent which was once inhabit...

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...catan, the Purchas from Popayan, Colombia, the denizens of the Marquesas Islands of Polynesia, and the natives of the captaincy of Sergipe in Brazil... ...is mandatory or prohibited, according to the social class (Bali, Papua New Guinea, Polynesian and Melanesian islands). In others, the Royal House s... ...g two concurrent speeds or "clocks" of evolution can lead to biological disasters. Polynesian islanders were wiped out by diseases imported from Eu... ... key to the guilt and sense of danger which accompany the violation of a taboo. In Polynesia, where the term originated, says the Britannica, "tabo... ...is mandatory or prohibited, according to the social class (Bali, Papua New Guinea, Polynesian and Melanesian islands). In others, the Royal House s...

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...catan, the Purchas from Popayan, Colombia, the denizens of the Marquesas Islands of Polynesia, and the natives of the captaincy of Sergipe in Brazil... ...is mandatory or prohibited, according to the social class (Bali, Papua New Guinea, Polynesian and Melanesian islands). In others, the Royal House s... ...g two concurrent speeds or "clocks" of evolution can lead to biological disasters. Polynesian islanders were wiped out by diseases imported from Eu... ... key to the guilt and sense of danger which accompany the violation of a taboo. In Polynesia, where the term originated, says the Britannica, "tabo... ...is mandatory or prohibited, according to the social class (Bali, Papua New Guinea, Polynesian and Melanesian islands). In others, the Royal House s...

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...ich, according to the most ancient notions of the Greeks, the whole earth was surrounded." This photolog relates through images a travel in French Polynesia, and it constitutes a love photoletter to the ocean, the islands, and its inhabitants....

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...ti, earlier and more full accounts were given, than of any other island in Polynesia; and this is the reason why it still retains so strong a hold on ... ...tives inveighing against the French (no favourites, by the bye, throughout Polynesia), and bitterly regretting that the queen had not, at the outset, ... ...oughly disliked, through- out all the Protestant missionary settlements in Polynesia. In early youth, he had been sent to a religious seminary in Fran... ... Father Murphy. His health again! And many jolly proselytes may he make in Polynesia! CHAPTER XXXVIII. LITTLE JULIA SAILS WITHOUT US TO MAKE GOOD the ... ... 131 Melville CHAPTER XXXIX. JERMIN SERVES US A GOOD TURN— FRIENDSHIPS IN POLYNESIA THE SHIP out of the way, we were quite anxious to know what was g... ...tom, and do our slightest bidding. The really curious way in which all the Polynesians are in the habit of making bosom friends at the shortest possib... ...led with love and admiration for the first whites who came among them, the Polynesians could not testify the warmth of their emotions more strongly th... ...he water. To obviate a certain rolling propensity, the Tahitians, like all Polynesians, attach to them what sailors call an “outrigger.” It consists o... ...sland; recommending him as one of the best getters up of fine linen in all Polynesia. At this time, Arheetoo had known me but two hours; and, 143 Mel...

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...from end to end with Marquesans: three brown- skinned generations, squatted cross-legged upon the floor, and regarding me in silence with embarrassing... ... experience of the islands, I had never again so menacing a reception; were I to meet with such to-day, I should be more alarmed and tenfold more surp... ..., and one, at least, was to mourn sincerely our departure. CHAPTER II—MAKING FRIENDS THE IMPEDIMENT OF TONGUES was one that I particularly over- estim... ...h elegance. And they are extremely similar, so that a person who has a tincture of one or two may risk, not without hope, an attempt upon the others. ... ...English, and in the French zone (though far less commonly) a little French-English, or an efficient pidgin, what is called to the westward ‘Beach-la-M... ... natural fine manners, and a touchy punc- tilio, are common to both races: common to both tongues the trick of dropping medial consonants. Here is a t... ... Ha’e Kaoha The elision of medial consonants, so marked in these Marquesan instances, is no less common both in Gaelic and the Lowland Scots. Stranger... ... if such a population could be isolated, and this mispronunciation should become the rule, it might prove the first stage of transition from T to K, w... ...e ten- dency of the Marquesans, however, is to urge against con- sonants, or at least on the very common letter L, a war of mere extermination. A hiat...

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...f a land of despotism. An elaborate courtliness marks the race alone among Polynesians; terms of ceremony fly thick as oaths on board a ship; commoner... ...ayest, though by far from either the most capable or the most beautiful of Polynesians. Fine dress is a passion, and makes a Samoan festival a thing o... ...ent to the losses of one’s neighbour. But the particu- lar drawback of the Polynesian system is to depress and stag- ger industry. T o work more is th... ...urers began to swarm about the isles of the Pacific. The seven sleepers of Polynesia stand, still but half aroused, in the midst of the century of com... ...side from life and from his family in dreadful isolation. These ideas most Polynesians have accepted in appearance, as they accept other ideas of the ... ...site.” And the ladies would be welcome. This is to take the most savage of Polynesians; take some of the most civilised. In Honolulu, convicts labour ... ...as filled with visionary schemes for the protection and development of the Polynesian race: Gibson fell in step with him; it is even thought he may ha... ...and by the advances of a private citizen. And they returned from dreams of Polynesian independence to find their own city in the hands of a clique of ... ...ld scarce affect the composure of the courts of Europe. But in the eyes of Polynesians the little kingdom occupies a place apart. It is there alone th...

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...es at the corners of two little eyes. There was no such beard from here to Polynesia, where a beard is a valuable property in itself. Bamtz’s beard wa... ...g to roll cigarettes on his knee with his stumps, telling endless yarns of Polynesia and whining and cursing in turn about ‘Mon Malheur.’ His hands ha...

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...hari- 4 Typee tably pass over his shortcomings in this particular. In the Polynesian words used in this volume,—except in those cases where the spell... ...ence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, a Peep at Polynesian Life,’ or, more briefly, ‘Melville’s Marquesas Islands.’ It was ... ...has been such as to intimidate the boldest of their number. Ellis, in his ‘Polynesian Researches’, gives some interesting accounts of the abortive att... ...hout fear of contradictions that in all the cases of outrages committed by Polynesians, Euro- peans have at some time or other been the aggressors, an... ...ere remark by the way— what I subsequently gleamed—that all the islands of Polynesia enjoy the reputation, in common with the Hibernian isle, of being... ...ure; and in this indeed con- sists, I believe, the peculiar charm of every Polynesian land- scape. Everywhere below me, from the base of the precipice... ...nd to provide for his starving offspring that food which the children of a Polynesian father, without troubling their parents, pluck from the branches... ... was fain to confess that, despite the disadvantages of his condition, the Polynesian savage, surrounded by all the luxurious provisions of nature, en... ...ght have entitled him to the distinction of standing for the statue of the Polynesian Apollo; and indeed the oval of his countenance and the regu- lar...

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... such certainty, in which the heliolithic peoples believed from Avebury to Polynesia? Not always have we had to go alone and unprepared into un- chart...

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...stick to the mountains now until I am old, and then I shall sail a boat in Polynesia. That is what so many old men do. Only last year one of the great... ...m, was to Europeanise the world, to extend the fran- chise to negroes, put Polynesians into trousers, and train the teeming myriads of India to apprec... ...us diseases to which you yourselves are immune, as the missionaries do the Polynesians; you may resort to honest simple murder, as we English did with...

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...ry came, and I began to teach him decimals; you wouldn’t think I knew them myself after so long desuetude! I could not but wonder how Henry stands his... ...ter. Folau had never heard of the offence, and begged to know what was the punishment; there may be lively times in forgery ahead. It seems the sort o... ...ere a Sa- moan had written a word on a board, and there was an A, perfectly formed, but upside down. You never saw such a thing in Europe; but it is a...

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...ment-room, and then wandered through the galleries up-stairs, crowded with Polynesian idols and Polynesian danc- ing-garments, and all the simple immo... ...ian danc- ing-garments, and all the simple immodest accessories to life in Polynesia, to a seat among the mummies. She was trying to bring her problem...

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... road and drank, and threw the dregs on the dusty ground to the pattern of Polynesia, and wished they could have a restful seat inside. Thus the stran...

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...p luckily drop- ping an anchor in their waters. The uncounted isles of all Polynesia confess the same truth, and do commercial homage to the whale- sh... ...whaleman, the Town-Ho,* was encoun- tered. She was manned almost wholly by Polynesians. In the short gam that ensued she gave us strong news of Moby D... ... climes. They contain round archipela- goes of romantic isles, even as the Polynesian waters do; in large part, are shored by two great contrasting na... ...s were dancing with the olive-hued girls who had eloped with them from the Polynesian Isles; while suspended in an ornamented boat, firmly secured alo...

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...hip luckily dropping an anchor in their waters. The uncounted isles of all Polynesia confess the same truth, and do commercial homage to the whale sh... ... whaleman, the Town Ho, 1 was encountered. She was manned almost wholly by Polynesians. In the short gam that ensued she gave us strong news of Moby D... ...of climes. They contain round archipelagoes of romantic isles, even as the Polynesian waters do; in large part, are shored by two great contrasting na... ...s were dancing with the olive hued girls who had eloped with them from the Polynesian Isles; while suspended in an ornamented boat, firmly secured alof...

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...r. Deep peace brooded over Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australasia, and Polynesia. The Powers dealt together more or less honestly; banks paid thei... ...ce continued to brood over Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australasia, and Polynesia. 106 Rudyard Kipling * * * It was the firing that did it...

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...ain, Within me zones, seas, cataracts, forests, volcanoes, groups, Malaysia, Polynesia, and the great West Indian islands. 3 What do you hear Wal... ...ession. Geography, the world, is in it, The Great Sea, the brood of islands, Polynesia, the coast beyond, The coast you henceforth are facing—you Libe...

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...n after gen- eration. Such instances as the terrible ravages of measles in Polynesia and the ruin worked by fire-water among the Red Indians, he gives... ...rious inquirer seek an account of the Tasmanian, or the Australian, or the Polynesian before “sophistication” came. The very existence and nature of m...

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...He had three tambos. Tambo is Melanesian for taboo, and is first cousin to that Polynesian word. Mauki’s three tambos were as follows: first, he must ne... ...an atoll, while the Solomons are high islands; and its people and language are Polynesian, while the inhabitants of the Solomons are Melanesian. Lord ... ...inable chanting of the deeds and adventures of Maui, the Promethean demigod of Polynesia who fished up dry land from ocean depths with hooks made fast ...

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...nd on one’s previously acquired ideas. My notions were drawn from Ellis’s “Polynesian Researches” — an admirable and most interesting work, but natura... ... to pursue the aboriginal. We may look to the wide extent of the Americas, Polynesia, the Cape of Good Hope, and Australia, and we find the same resul... ...me result. Nor is it the white man alone that thus acts the destroyer; the Polynesian of Malay extrac- tion has in parts of the East Indian archipelag...