Parsons, Claire D.F.

Scope and Contents The collection contains a manuscript version of part of an appendix to Parsons' PhD thesis Sickness experience and language: aspects of Tongan and Western accounting (University of Waikato, 1981). The manuscript consists of accounts of Tongan sicknesses and therapies, and a section on Tongan medicines by Tupou Posesi Fanua. Some of the accounts were recorded by Tongans under the direction of Fanua who is considered an authority on traditional Tongan culture....