 Besides this, however, the tamafafine really exercises great influence in all family matters, owing to the Samoan superstition that the wrath of the sister or her descendants may bring disaster upon the family, and it may as well be mentioned here at...  The Journal of the Polynesian Society - Page 471908Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Polynesian Society (N.Z.) - 1911 - 268 pages
...offering of foodstuffs and mats on certain occasions (taulaga). Besides this, however, the tamafafine really exercises great influence in all family matters,...claims for inheritance. A general term for tamatane and tamafafine is sult (heirs expectant in a wider sense). The regular order of inheritance may be described... | |
 | Polynesian Society (N.Z.) - 1911 - 340 pages
...offering of foodstuffs and mats on certain occasions (taulaga). Besides this, however, the tamafafine really exercises great influence in all family matters,...at once that in this way not infrequently power is bronght to bear against well-grounded claims for inheritance. A general term for tamatane and tamafafint... | |
 | Robert Wood Williamson - 1924 - 514 pages
...that was offered by the tamatane to the tamafafine as above stated, the tamafafine really exercised great influence in all family matters, owing to the...superstition that the wrath of the sister or her descendants might bring disaster upon the family, and adds that in this way power was not infrequently brought... | |
 | Robert Wood Williamson - 1924 - 512 pages
...that was offered by the tamatane to the tamafaftne as above stated, the tamafafine really exercised great influence in all family matters, owing to the...superstition that the wrath of the sister or her descendants might bring disaster upon the family, and adds that in this way power was not infrequently brought... | |
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