Ancient Tahitian Society

"Tahiti is far famed yet too little known." Thus wrote J. M. Orsmond in 1848, and the same assertion can be made in 1972. Thousands of pages had been published about Tahiti and its neighboring islands when Orsmond uttered his judgment, and tens of thousands have been published since that t...

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Main Author: Oliver, Douglas L. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: University of Hawai'i Press 1974
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