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After a last 4:30 p.m. contact with the ship, leaving on board most 
of our critical supplies and bedding, etc.. We came back to the feast site 
before the church and beside the small school building which has been turn- 
ed over to our party. Here the entire Anuta community was assembled, 
without one stitch of cloth clothing evident. Everyone was dressed in 
ceremonial bark tapa cloth loin coverings and skirts and bare chested} 
even naked little boys had donned the traditional bark covering. The Chief 
was sitting with his staff bearing guardsmen behind him, and his translator, 
Basil* beside him, and we crawled up on our knees to kiss his cheek and rub 
noses as we have been doing with everyone whom we meet since our landing, 
only crawling up to the Chief, however. We then backed off to our mat where 
the Chief eventually had us served with immense portions of puddings of 
ground and grated taro and steamed fish. We started to eat and then 
everyone else was served, seated around in a wide circle of family groups 
with the chief and dignitaries together to our right. This was about as 
tradionally Polynesian as is possible in the world today, in a community 
which still lives this tradition. As we first sat down, the man who 
officiated in serving us later, and seemed to be in charge of all the prepar- 
ation for this welcoming and feast, turns out to be the father of John 
Paromatua, who has been my mascot all day. 
Anuta Island October 22, 1972 
Today the one canoe which has been uncovered went out to meet the 
Boston Whaler outside of the surf at low tide and brought in further loads 
of supplies, so that we are finally stocked with what we packaged for shore. 
Our waterproof packaging was hopeless and most of it has leaked, for no 
one really bargained on the long submerging the packages usually got in 
the landing. The second and first canoe trips brought in our four missing 
scientists, and with Judy, Don, Frangoise and Ray ashore, we are now all 
here. We have filled the schoolhouse with our gear and when it comes to 
sleeping time, we must move it all aside in order to find sleeping room. 
After Sunday morning service, we passed out venules as the people 
left the church and started bleeding almost immediately. We managed to 
bleed a total of 140 during the rest of the morning, but it took me hours 
to record all their names, their parents and their travel. It was a long, 
boring, and very tedious task, and Rick stuck to it with me giving me all 
the names, the parents, their origins, etc. through the whole series, until 
we were both sick with the sun which was beating down upon us, and tired 
from the long questioning. Rick knows the people well, and can tell me 
most of the parents, and needs only an occasional reminder from the people. 
The record looks fairly complete and accurate. I needed to learn from him 
the Pu and Nau prefixes for man and wife, who after marriage share the same 
name. For married people these are the only names I usually get, and their 
Christian name comes forth at times, if I ask for it. To get in addition 
their premarital "custom name" is a matter of long inquiry at times, but 
for a number of people we have it, and for all the unmarried. 
