232 
October 23, 1972 
Dear Carleton, 
Three days of Tikopia is not enough, even with Firth's book around. Te 
Ariki Kafika is a crafty old fox, who put me in a kind of golden jail, and would 
not answer a straight question. The English of his son Edward is difficult. Te 
Ariki Tofua has a son with a better command of anything which can be a means of 
communication. 
I would say, by all means, bleed in Mufuntu, at the landing spot. But do 
not forget to bleed in Namo, the farthest village, which commands the evacuation 
canal of the lake. It is out of the way, difficult, and could bring in the 
problems of people of exterior origin. They have the least control over the 
land. There are sick people there to be attended to and I promised them doctors 
would come. 
They pretend in Yakarte that the German sailor which was Dillon's informant 
did not marry and that they killed him because of his wickedness. They state 
too that they killed a Haoli, who is said to have been R. Firth's grandfather 
(?), a man called Pilo Ponare. 
The Tikopian Islanders gone to the New Hebrides in canoe, via Vatkhanay (or 
Vitade as the Banks call it), are the following: 
(in Namo: 
( 
1953( 
(in Matauki: 
( 
Andrew Matofa (now on Tikopia) 
Arthur Niumano 
Jazel Tekaumato 
Frank Saparika, house of Koroatu 
Martin & Tanap (twins), house of Paaka 
Akefon village 
•I 
Naarek village 
Mataafauga village 
( 
1942( 
( 
Ambrus Makoirangi 
Henry Sorumia 
Jake Tanuma 
Faretupu village 
t* It 
II II 
When you take a name, ask for the "home name" which is the vernacular and 
for the name of the "house" or the "parito." 
Difficulties of communication have rendered the geneaological task hopeless 
in two days. It needs a good three weeks stay. 
They, being very patrilineal as regards transmission of land, resent being 
told that they might have exterior origins. Nevertheless can be listed: 
— Frederic Sowaki, head inspector of police in Honiara, but present. 
Married with Malaita wife. 
— Sikaiana " (Mary): Father Kidert, of Pohsiko, not present 
— Bugoto, Santa Ysabel: Father Marvyn, of Namo, the present headmaster 
— Santa Anna: Beka, Patauyma, of Matautu, not present 
--Western Solomons: one man, not present 
— Bellona Island: one woman, not present 
