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Author Taʼunga, author

Title The works of Ta'unga : records of a Polynesian traveller in the South Seas, 1833-1896 / [edited by] R.G. and Marjorie Crocombe, with annotations by Jean Guiart, Neil Gunson and Dorothy Shineberg
Published Canberra : Australian National University Press, 1968

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Description xxv, 164 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Pacific history series ; no. 2
Pacific history series ; no. 2
Contents Foreword / H.E. Maude -- The historical setting -- The westward voyage -- Establishing the Tuauru mission -- The Star massacre -- The Yate incident -- The epidemics -- An attack from the Isle of Pines -- Spreading the word -- The Loyalty Islands -- On the eating of men -- On the work of the gods -- Customs miscellaneous -- Return to Rarotonga -- Samoa -- Success and tribulation in the Manu'a Church -- Samoan miscellany -- The declining years
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-155) and index
Notes commitment to retain 20151204 pda OTUTLD
Subject Missions -- Islands of the Pacific.
SUBJECT Islands of the Pacific http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068616 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Polynesia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104688 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Islands of the Pacific. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068616
Melanesia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083370 -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001278
Polynesia -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116617
Oceania -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116422 -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012010
Islands of the Pacific http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068616 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
Islands of the Pacific http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068616 -- History -- Sources. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012008
Genre/Form History.
Sources.
Author Crocombe, R. G., editor
Crocombe, Marjorie Tuainekore, editor
LC no. 68018786
ISBN 0900966033 :
Other Titles Polynesian traveller in the South Seas