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Scope and Contents
The collection consists of research material, correspondence, drafts, photographs, field notes and copies of Tohi Hohoko, the outcome of anthropological fieldwork undertaken in Tonga 1958-1960 by Elizabeth Spillius (nee Bott) and James Spillius. Material in the collection dates from April 1958 to 1981.
The collection is organised into five broad subject areas or sections within which material is arranged in a roughly chronological order.
I. Research material pertaining to the study of psychoanalysis and ceremony, Tongan Society at the time of Captain Cook's visits, social structure and kinship.
II. Papers and Correspondence, 1961, 1962, including James Spillius's Ph.D thesis draft.
III. Field work in Tonga, 1958-1960, which includes valuable ethnographic research on hingoa, hohoko and observations of taumafa kava, and information collected in the course of work on the Environmental Sanitation Project for the WHO: data on geneologies, kinship, rank, history, political structure, weddings, funerals, fonos and family life. This section includes a valuable collection of photographs, 43 field notebooks and materaila concerning the 1959 filming of the taumafa kava ceremony for the Tongan Traditions Committee.
IV. General miscellaneous.
V. Confidential material - some items in this section are partly restricted.
This collection also includes James Spillius' notes and field reports on water sanitation in Tonga for the World Health Organisation.
Abbreviations
From the Collection:- E.J.S.
- Elizabeth Spillius
- J.S.
- James Spillius
- H.M.
- Her Majesty Queen Salote Tupou
- H.V.
- Honourable Ve'ehala
- TT
- Tu'i Tonga
- TK
- Tu'i Kanokupolu
- TH
- Yu'i Ha'atakalaua
- TTC
- Tongan Traditions Committee
- WHO
- World Health Organization
- ESP
- Environmental Sanitation Project
- Hw
- Handwritten
- ?
- Uncertain
- p
- Page, both sides used
- l
- Leaf, one side used
- n.d.
- No date
Glossary of Tongan words relevant to this inventory.
From the Collection:- faikava
- kava ceremony.
- faifekau
- minister.
- fakanofo
- appoint; ceremony where the new title holder's title is issued for the first time in faikava, kava being given to him first, regardless of the usual order of serving.
- fakamatala
- description, explanation, report.
- fanua
- children.
- fatongia
- duty, obligation.
- fono
- chief's meeting; no discussion.
- hingoa
- name, title.
- hohoko
- genealogy.
- kainga
- kin group.
- koloa
- goods, wealth, riches.
- lakalaka
- action song, standing.
- liongi
- to go into mourning; involving haircutting.
- lo'au
- an assembly of the Queen and her matapule; a meeting to discuss kava matters.
- ma'u
- extract, quoted from speech or book.
- ngaue
- food brought in for pongipongi.
- pongipongi
- ceremony for new titleholder where subjects present their homage to the Queen or King - a presentation of food and kava followed by kaumafa kava.
- sino'i ieiki
- the body of aristocrats.
- taumafa kava
- royal kava ceremony.
- tohi hohoko
- genealogy book.
- toutai
- navigator, fisherman.
- vahe
- district; vahe Hihifo - western division of Tongatapu.
- 'api
- area of land held by one man (8 ¼ acres).
- 'eiki
- aristocrat of very high rank.
- 'Ene Afio
- His/her Majesty.
Dates
- 1958 - 1960
Creator
- From the Collection: Spillius, Elizabeth Bott (Person)
- From the Collection: World Health Organization (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
PARTLY RESTRICTED. Access to Box 26, folder 5; Box 26, folder 6; Box 26, folder 7 requires the permission of the Special Collections Manager.
Extent
From the Collection: 2 metres (26 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections, University of Auckland Repository
5 Alfred Street
Private Bag 92019
Auckland 1142 New Zealand
specialcollections@auckland.ac.nz