Foreword -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Final introduction -- Introductory -- Calendar and time -- Fishing for the Palu -- Fishing for Bonito -- Fishing for Papa (kingfish) with the running noose -- Fishing for Flying-fish (Fai-isave) -- The Ellice Islands canoe -- Units of measurement -- Colour-sense and colour names -- Diet and cooking -- Games -- Vaitupu songs -- Religion -- Traditions and folk-lore -- Surgery and surgical instruments -- Sickness and its treatment -- Obstetrics -- Dwellings and other houses -- Material culture -- Final notes -- index.

Donald Gilbert Kennedy (March 1898 - 1976) was born at Springhills, near Invercargill. He became a teacher, then an administrator in the British colonial service in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony and the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. For his services as a Coastwatcher during the Pacific War (World War II), he was awarded the DSO, and the Navy Cross (U.S.). He published journal articles and books on the material culture of Vaitupu atoll, land tenure and the language of the Ellice Islands.--Wikipedia, retrieved September 2020.