TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferdon,Edwin N.
TI  - Early Tonga: as the explorers saw it 1616-1810 
SN  - 0816510261
U1  - 306/.0996/12 19
PY  - 1987///
CY  - Tucson
PB  - University of Arizona Press
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Tonga
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-331) and index; Tongans & their dwellings -- Social organisation & government -- Kava : drink for all occasions -- Religion -- Daily life -- From birth to death -- Recreation -- Quest for food -- Trade & transportation -- War & peace
N2  - "Ethnographic observations and experiences on the Tongan islands up to 1810 -- just prior to intensive Christian missionary activities -- provide an early historic baseline of culture for those interested in later culture change in Tonga, the only Polynesian island group that has never been ruled by outsiders. Ferdon ... [provides an] account of major aspects of Tongan life -- material culture, government, food and drink, recreation, customs, trade, and warfare -- at the time when European influences were only beginning to modify traditional island patterns"--Dust cover
ER  -