The Journal of the Polynesian Society, Volume 21

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Polynesian Society, 1912
Vocabularies of some of the languages of Polynesia are included. "A list of Polynesian languages" is given in v. 21, p. 67-71.
 

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Page i - SECOND DAY'S SESSION. President EM Morehouse, in chair. After payment of dues, the Society proceeded to the election of officers for the ensuing year, which resulted as follows : President, EM Morehouse, MD ist Vice-President, C, H.
Page 174 - New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Malaysia, as well as Polynesia proper. Candidates for admission to the Society shall be admitted on the joint recommendation of a member of the Society and a member of the Council, and on the approval of the Council. Every person elected to membership shall receive immediate notice of the same from the...
Page 174 - Society is formed to promote the study of the Anthropology, Ethnology, Philology, History and Antiquities of the Polynesian races, by the publication of an official journal, to be called " THE JOURNAL OF THE POLYNESIAN SOCIETY;" and by the collection of books, manuscripts, photographs, relics, and other illustrations.
Page 178 - Society," and by the collection of books, manuscripts, photographs, relics, and other illustrations of the history of the Polynesian race. The term " Polynesia " is intended to include Australasia, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Malaysia, as well as Polynesia proper.
Page 186 - The object of the society was "to promote the study of the Anthropology, Ethnology, Philology, History, and Antiquities of the Polynesian race by the publication of an official journal to be called 'The Journal of the Polynesian Society,' and by the collection of books, manuscripts, photographs, relics, and other illustrations of the history of the Polynesian race.
Page 165 - ... stragglers, few in number, reached the other archipelagoes In time the voyage was resumed out on unknown seas towards the rising sun. Only a small portion of any fleet could have made port in Rapanui, the last home of the Polynesian race — for the rest, submergence. That this migration is the most recent in the province is shown by the fact that wherever found the Rapanui element still retains in sharp distinction its characteristic features.
Page 148 - Ellice groups was given at the Brisbane meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, in 1895, by 1.
Page 165 - Matamatatne* .... the date of the Norman conquest. At the same time a third, the second overlaying, settlement was made upon these parts, the Tongafiti pursuit of Proto-Samoan fugitives." " At a later period there entered the province, undoubtedly from leeward, as is the impulse of all Polynesian folk movement, a migration representing a different phase This later migration was caught in the Paumotu chain ; only its stragglers, few in number, reached the other archipelagoes In time the voyage was...
Page 174 - Ethnology, * Philology, History, and Antiquities of the Polynesian races, by the publication of an official journal to be called " THE JOURNAL OF THE POLYNESIAN SOCIETY," and by the collection of books, manuscripts, photographs, relics, and other illustrations of the history of the Polynesian race.
Page 165 - In the four languages of the province * there is a wide speech-group of broad diffusion and of considerable complexity We find one element of unknown antiquity, a corpus of Polynesian speech summed at 16,000 vocables which have passed from the use of the others of the race. We find reason to consider this due to a Proto-Samoan settlement of uncertain date, but very probably coincident with the first arrival of that migration swarm within the central Pacific after the divaricated Melanesian traverse....

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