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Hadfield, E. (Emma)
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Folklore -- New Caledonia -- Loyalty Islands.
Loyalty Islands (New Caledonia)
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Among the natives of...
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Among the natives of the Loyalty group, by E. Hadfield.
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Hadfield, E. (Emma)
London, Macmillan and Co., 1920.
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Folklore -- New Caledonia -- Loyalty Islands.
Loyalty Islands (New Caledonia)
ISBN:
3043700000
Description:
vii-xix, 316 pages illustrations 23 cm
Contents:
Part 1. Introduction, Lifu, Uvea, origin of tribes -- Characteristics, physical and moral -- appearance, gratitude, truthfulness, honesty, intelligence -- Lifuan chiefs, their position and power -- Social life -- houses, furniture -- Work, agriculture, fishing, house-building -- Navigation, astronomy -- Division of time and languages -- Amusements: swimming, games, personal adornments, dancing, music -- Superstition, charms, omens, totems -- Cannibalism and war -- Births, marriages and deaths.
Part 2. Loyalty Island legends: Echo (Mekem) -- Sapless bamboo -- Worm and the spider -- Introduction of the coconut -- Fate of the selfish sea-gull -- Matrimonial dispute of the sun and the moon -- Lesson in honesty -- Fruits of disobedience -- Destruction of a demon -- Carnivorous Cainyo -- gluttonous hawk -- Filial disobedience (a tragedy) -- Deceitful crayfish (Enehumen) -- Sad effects of an evil temper -- Tragic end of the dove's grandmother -- Plot of the octopus to destroy domestic harmony -- Unnatural parent -- Why the lifuans bury their dead in the ground -- Wonderful adventures of three orphans -- Domesticated demon -- Stolen sio -- Cainyo the giant -- Sewen (Green turtle) -- Two female jonahs -- Second femal Jonah -- Advantage of blood-letting -- Christening of the yam -- Strange birth of a boy -- water fairies -- How two virgins became mothers of chiefs -- Bereaved sisters -- A Long night -- Lifuan proverbs.
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Hawaii State Library
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H 919.33 H11
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