Polynesian Religion
Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 34
E.S. Craighill Handy
Published by Bayard Dominick Expedition, 1927
This study seeks to present as simply as possible an interpretative exposition of the essential elements of
belief and practice characeristic of the ancient worship of the Polynesian peoples. It is the product of three
years of literary research devoted to this subject in preparation of a thesis, which was presented at
Harvard University in 1920 for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, and of five years of
subsequent personal investigation in the different island groups of Polynesia. The illustrations are
therefore drawn both from literature and from evidence obtained directly from natives in the course of
personal investigation.
(The text above comes from the introduction in the book)
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