- Bib ID:
- 10010193
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gittins, Anne, author
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Description:
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- Owings Mills, Md. : Stemmer House Publishers, 1977
- ©1977
- v, 89 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- ISBN:
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- Summary:
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Folk tales collected from Fiji, Rotuma, Tonga, Samoa, the New Hebrides, and other South Pacific islands.
- Full contents:
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- How the mosquitoes came to Oneata
- The Firewalkers
- Tui Liku and the demons
- The Drum that lost its voice
- A Fijian fable
- Why the moon has shadows on her face
- The Red prawns of Vatu-Lele
- The Guardians of the Islands
- Koroika and the serpent
- Wisehead the giant
- The Two-headed giant of Rotuma
- Maui the fisherman
- How fire came to Tonga
- A True love story of Tonga
- The Story of the sun-child
- Rata's canoe
- The Coconut tree
- How Ina tattooed the fish
- Lasa and the three friendly spirits
- The Rat and the squid
- How the yam came to the New Hebrides
- How the Masi dived for a sunbeam.
- Notes:
- "A Barbara Holdridge book.".
- Subject:
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- Genre/Form:
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Rocca, Frank, illustrator
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1977
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