From the Two Canoes : : Oral Traditions of Rennell and Bellona /

From the Two Canoes : : Oral Traditions of Rennell and Bellona / / Torben Monberg, Samuel H. Elbert.

Rennell and Bellona are two Polynesian Outlier islands in the British Solomon Islands. The people of Rennell and Bellona often refer to their islands in their rituals and poetry as two canoes. The ancestors who discovered the islands came from the east in two canoes, and the crews of these two canoe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Hawaii Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
VerfasserIn:
Elbert, Samuel H.,
Monberg, Torben,
MitwirkendeR:
Elbret, Samuel H.,
Monberg, Torben,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2021]
©1965
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (438 p.) :; 3 folded maps and diagrams at end of volume
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • SYMBOLS
  • CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 2. THE TELLERS
  • CHAPTER 3. GENEALOGIES
  • CHAPTER 4. DEITIES
  • CHAPTER 5. MAUTIKITIKI
  • CHAPTER 6. SINA
  • CHAPTER 7. OTHER CULTURE HEROES
  • CHAPTER 8. KAITU'U AND TAUPONGI
  • CHAPTER 9. THE HITI
  • CHAPTER 10. TINOPAUMATU'A
  • CHAPTER 11. ANCESTORS OF MUGIHENUA AND THE LAKE
  • CHAPTER 12. ANCESTORS OF KANABA
  • CHAPTER 13. ANCESTORS OF THE KAITU'U CLAN, BELLONA
  • CHAPTER 14. ANCESTORS OF THE IHO CLAN, BELLONA
  • CHAPTER 15. THE EXTERMINATED CLANS
  • CHAPTER 16. MEN AND GODS
  • CHAPTER 17. HUMAN AFFAIRS
  • CHAPTER 18. WANDERINGS
  • CHAPTER 19. CHRISTIANIZATION
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX
  • PLATES

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