This morning I put up on Facebook the genealogies of Kiribati, from the creation of the world. These were gathered by the missionary May Pateman, and published on Beru in Aia Karaki nikawai I-Tungaru in 1942. OBSERVATION: It takes some effort to reproduce these pages, since the book is badly damaged. A few copies still exist, though none in Kiribati itself.
POSTSCRIPT: I put this up not realising that it redraws the lines of ancestral lands. It appears to be a far more significant document than I had imagined.
POSTSCRIPT: I put this up not realising that it redraws the lines of ancestral lands. It appears to be a far more significant document than I had imagined.
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