Polynesian Society
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Journal
THIS quarter’s “Journal of the Poly nesian Society” contains its usual interesting assortment of articles for the ethnologically minded.
Most of the articles, in this issue, deal with the New Zealand Maori. Of par ticular interest is the article on the ori ginal kumara, or sweet-potato, which tradition says Whaka-o-te-Rangi sal vaged from the Arawa canoe and planted shortly after those first trans-Pacific voyagers reached Aotearoa.
W. H. Newell describes the kava cere mony in Tonga, in detail.
This number contains a tribute to the late Mrs. H. B. R. P'arhaiA, of Fiji, a member of the Polynesian Society of long standing; book notices; and the index to volume 56.