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A tribute to business... and peeping moms.

Robert E. Longacre (1965) lists the correlation of function and set as one of the fundamental insights of tagmemics. In this article we briefly examine the tagmemic notion of function and suggest in particular that it be extended more systematically…

History of weather.

The procedure of endarterectomy in the instance of localized occlusions of the arterial tree. In the case of extensive, non-localized atheromatus disease of the aorta-iliac and the femoral-popliteal-tibial segments in the leg, the majority

An inevitable fact of loaning money to businesses is that some do not pay it back. Reasons vary: Some get caught in a downswing in the economy; a few are just irresponsible; many for various reasons just quit.

Sharyn Tanabe is an every child. She does not exist, yet there is some part of her in all our AJA youth. Our sweetheart wears a digital pager on her hip. It compliments her designer clothes and the car grandpa recently bought for her.

In reference to the natives of the Philippine Islands the best descriptions are written in the Spanish Language. In fact until recently the conservative and jealous feelings of the Spanish have prevented any systematic exploration of the country by…

The genealogy of one of the Chieftainesses of Rarotonga - Pa, of the Takitumu or Ngatitangiia tribe, who take their name from tangiia, the leader of the migration (from Tahiti?), and who settled down in Rarotonga, together with Makea-Karika and his…

It is possible that the "Whence of the Maori" may be determined with more or less precision by ascertaining from what island in the Pacific they have derived the gods to whom they address their Karakias, since it cannot be said that a Maori worships…

The first two parts of the "hymn" are of a very elevated character, not often found in Polynesian poems.

The following notes have been compiled from three French works published within the last fourteen years. This Island must not be confounded with the other Futuna (or Fotuna) situated near the south-eastern end of the New Hebrides Group. The Futuna of…

The letter-changes and the variety of meanings attached to the different forms of the Polynesian Causative form one of the most interesting subjects of thoughts to which the student of language can address his powers.

Perhaps one of the most puzzling problems known to anthropologists is to account for the apparent dislike shown by the fair Polynesian for the use of the bow and arrow. They found the mighty weapon of the archer in the hands of almost every…

Handley Bathurst Sterndale in the mountain ranges of Upolu.

The last number of this Journal contained the account of the settlement of the natives on Rarotonga Island as derived from the Ngati-Tangiia tribe. The following is from the other, or Ngati-Karika tribe. TEXT IN MAORI AND ENGLISH.

Of the doings of Paoa in New Zealand there are many traditions extant among the northern Ngati-Kahungunu, Rongowhakaata, and Ngati-porou Tribes, who dwell on the East Coast of New Zealand near East Cape.

Or Rekohu, its Moriori name. Found at Opuhi, near Owenga on the East Coast of the Island.

Migration of Ngatiawa to Port Nicholson.

History and genealogies.

Government, religion, priests, tapu.

The Tagalo-Bisaya tribes.

Vocabulary.

Two species of land birds, the Longtailed Cuckoo, Eudynamis Taitiensis, and the Shining Cuckoo, Chrysococcyx lucidus, spend the summer months in New Zealand, the former wintering in Fiji, the Friendly Society, Marquesas, and Samoa Islands; the latter…

It meant emphatically a human being; not a human being of the Polynesian race as distingushed from some other human being of another race; but a common or real human being as distinguished from a being, human indeed in form, but not in fact.

Review of a book by R. H. Codrington.

The following tradition was supplied in the original by Jonacani Dabea, of the Island of Bega, one branch of the Davutukia Tribe, who occupy the south-western part of Viti-levu. Vuda Point, mentioned as the landing place, is the north-western point…

The following is an account of an incident in the early history of the Maoris, which took place shortly after the arrival of one of the historical canoes at New Zealand. The canoe was Takitumu, and the principal chief on board was…

Part II. - The migration of Ngatiawa to Chatham Island.

The exalted supremacy ascribed to Tangaloa in this myth, is characteristic of the Western Polynesians, but we venture to suggest that further research will prove that other branches of the race ascribe the same high position to Tane, and that…

We understand Dr. Emerson of Honolulu is engaged on the useful work of compiling an exhustive account of the Polynesian Canoe...

The Tagalo-Bisaya Tribes. - II

Part III. - The Jean Bart incident. While the Maoris - Ngatitama and Kekerewai - were waiting at Waitangi for Captain Ray, which, so far as can be ascertained, was in March or April, 1839, a sail was seen coming into the Bay. A number of people went…

His story to Sir James Ross was twenty-eight men and women killed, twenty wounded.

Sometime after the arrival of the Arawa canoe at Maketu, in the Bay of Plenty, and before the many illustrious chiefs of that migration had spread themselves over the country, there arrived a small party of men and women from that ancient home of the…

I have been preparing a grammar and vocabulary as a key to the inscriptions and an explanation of how to read the characters and the languages in or for which they were cut or engraved. "The bones of our ancestors of the Sun-fires, the masters of the…

These pronouns, taken from widely separated parts of the island world, do not at first sight appear to be identical with each other, and it may be as well to show that, as is well known, they are.

Information was difficult to procure due to two causes. The first is that the mission have substituted our political economy for theirs. The second is, that in collecting this information piece by piece, a civilized man is naturally tempted to…

Read before the Hawaiian Historical Society, January 28, 1892.

Read before the Hawaiian Historical Society, April 7, 1892, by J. S. Emerson, Esq., Vice-President of the Society.

It is a small island that does not belong to any well known group. Its nearest neighbours being Tonga, about 200 miles to the West, and Samoa, nearly 300 miles to the North. It is about 40 miles in circumference, and is nearly of an oval shape.

Covering letters A to L.

Miss Teuira Henry, of Honolulu, supplies the following genealogical table with some notes showing the connection between this family and others in Hawaii, Rarotonga, and New Zealand. If this connection can be maintained it will serve to fix the date…

The following account refers to several of the tribes who, at the time of the arrival of the historical canoes, lived in the Bay of Plenty, and who were finally extinguished as tribes at the time of the fall of the above pas, the remnants being…

The following lament, or tangi, is published as a fair specimen of Maori poetry, illustrating the peculiar abrupt transition of ideas, the suppression of words used in prose composition, and the allegorical form of expression common to all Maori…

I. E pehe tai vahine. Written down by Rev. J. M. Orsmond in 1824 at the island of Raiatea, but is still recited by some of the old natives at the present day. II. Four dirges taken down by Miss Teuira Henry in 1881, at Huahine, from the lips of an…

This word Maori is not an original or ancient word from the days of old, at least, in the Ngatiporou district. Now my idea of the root of this word Maori is that it originated in our words Mamori, Mori, Morimori, or Momori.