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Cook Islands custom.

By:

Gill, William Wyatt, 1828-1896

Contributor(s):

Gill, William Wyatt, 1828-1896. South Pacific and New Guinea, past and present

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: [Suva, Fiji] : Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific ; Ratotonga : Ministry of Education, [1979]Description: 28 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306/.0996/23 19

Contents:

Birth and childhood -- Maturity -- Marriage -- The tribe -- Social and domestic -- Wizards -- Death -- Spirit world -- Mythology -- Philology -- A song from the island of Mangaia (The praises of Enuataurere)

Summary: "This ... document, first published in 1892, describes some of the original customs of the Cook Islands. ... Illustrations from: Jottings from the Pacific / by William Wyatt Gill. London : Religious Tract Society, 1885, and Life in the southern isles / William Wyatt Gill. London : Religious Tract Society, 1876.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Barcode
Texts - cam	TNU, Faculty of Education, Arts and Humanities Pasifika Collection	PAC 390.9623 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan	FEAH25041223

Reproduced from the author's The South Pacific and New Guinea, past and present.

"This ... document, first published in 1892, describes some of the original customs of the Cook Islands. ... Illustrations from: Jottings from the Pacific / by William Wyatt Gill. London : Religious Tract Society, 1885, and Life in the southern isles / William Wyatt Gill. London : Religious Tract Society, 1876.