 | 1881 - 538 pages
...again sub-divided into a number of vuvale, consisting of brothers with their families, who inhabit either the same house, or adjoining houses. That is to say, a number of vuvale make up a yavusa, a number of yavusa make up a mataqali, and a number of mataqali make up a koro. The... | |
 | 1881 - 552 pages
...again sub-divided into a number of vuvale, consisting of brothers with their families, who inhabit either the same house, or adjoining houses. That is to say, a number of vuvale make up a yavusa, a number of yavusa make up a mataqali, and a number of mataqali make up a koro. The... | |
 | Lorimer Fison - 1908 - 40 pages
...yavusa may be divided into a number of Vuvale, consisting of brothers, with their families, who inhabit either the same house, or adjoining houses. That is to say, a number of vuvale make up a yavusa, a number of yavusa make up a mataqali, and a number of mataqali make up a koro. The... | |
 | 1913 - 512 pages
...again sub-divided into a number of vuvale, consisting of brothers with their families, who inhabit either the same house, or adjoining houses. That is to say, a number of vuvale make up a yavusa, a number of yavusa make up a mataqali, and a number of mataqali make up a koro. The... | |
 | 498 pages
...of Viti Levu, and its immediate dependencies. In the community, as I will call it (adopting Fison's terminology), of Bau there were a number of koro or...number of mataqali made up a koro. The people of a koro were theoretically of common descent, though they were not always actually so1. Young's account... | |
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mataqali " is composed of the descendants of a mataveitathini, or band of brothers, from each of whom is descended a minor division called a yavusa, and each yavusa may be again sub-divided into a number of vuvale, consisting of brothers with their families,... 