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are very much like the undisciplined and incorrigible American children in this 
respect, and all of our scientific staff is exhausted in trying to keep track 
and tabs on these Polynesians. 
The boys have produced many pictures with references to male and female 
genitalia in their "draw anything" attempts last night. In their teasing and 
jesting, they refer to sexual practices and irregularities. They often jest 
with such references in association with our attempts to get the names of some 
of their peers and the smaller boys, often bringing these youngsters to tears. 
Their limited English already includes "clitoris", "circumcise", "vagina", and 
"penis" — at the ages of eight and ten years, and they draw many pictures with 
these words symbolized. Apparently, they have picked up recent American slang 
and genital reference from the crews of yachts that have stopped by. 
The singing, accompanied by clapping, is loud and noisy and not very 
disciplined. They match the Tikoplan exhuberant, aggressive, domineering 
personalities well. They are a loud, not a quiet, silent people. They are not 
gentle. 
The Island is loaded with fine artifacts: clubs, tortoise shell neck 
pendants, bone and clam shell (mother-of-pearl) fish hooks, necklaces, 
headrests, bowls, coconut grating stools, canoe bailers, bows and arrows, dance 
paddles. I have not yet purchased anything, but everyone else has been buying 
avidly. 
...11 p.m. 
We have shown a terrible cinema film, which hardly drew a laugh, and which 
rightfully put many to sleep, an inane comedy of World War II, stupidly put 
together and hardly worth showing to these movie-starved people. They have more 
taste than to be interested in such trash. 
I am now preparing to pay for the repairs to my Futuna canoe which the 
dispensary medical aid, Leonard, arranged to have done for me by his old father. 
The job seems to be moderately well done, and I think we can detach the 
outrigger for shipping and later reassemble it easily. The Futuna canoes, 
however, are very differently made from the more sea-worthy Tikopian’s, and the 
modest comment that Leonard made was that my canoe was for very calm seas. 
With the further 78 bleedings today, we have a total of 228 Tikopian 
specimens. However, 6 of those bled are Anuta chidren attending school here at 
Tikopla. These are: 
School Child 
Father 
Mother 
Grade 
1774 
Cecil Vaipa 
M 
12 
Pu Parekope 
1728 
Nau Parenkope 
1729 
3 
1802 
John Mark Taukar 
M 
14 
Pu Akope 
1671 
Nau Akope 
4 
1863 
Colin Taurava Vakope 
M 
10 
Pu Notau 
1631 
Nau Notau 
1632 
2 
1862 
Stet Mapana 
F 
12 
Pu Paone 
1679 
Nau Paone 
1725 
3 
1858 
Ruth Tokitanaki 
F 
14 
Pu Raropuko 
1753 
Nau Rarokuko 
1751 
3 
1898 
Lesley Tufak 
M 
13 
Pu Notau 
1631 
Nau Notau 
1632 
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