May 1990 Volume 5, Number 2-3 : South Pacific Oral Traditions Download Media Front Matter Editor's Column Articles Every Picture Tells a Story: Visual Alternatives to Oral Tradition in Ponam Society Achsah Carrier, James Carrier “That Isn’t Really a Pig”: Spirit Traditions in the Southern Cook Islands Christian Clerk Wept Thoughts: The Voicing of Kaluli Memories Steven Feld Introduction: or, Why the Comparativist Should Take Account of the South Pacific Ruth Finnegan Sex and Slander in Tikopia Song: Public Antagonism and Private Intrigue Raymond Firth Fiction, Fact, and Imagination: A Tokelau Narrative Judith Huntsman “My Summit Where I Sit”: Form and Content in Maori Women’s Love Songs Margaret Orbell Winged Tangi’ia: A Mangaian Dramatic Performance Marivee McMath, Teaea Parima Wry Comment from the Outback: Songs of Protest from the Niva Islands, Tonga Wendy Pond Profile of a Composer: Ihaia Puka, a Pulotu of the Tokelau Islands Allen Thomas, Ineleo Tuia “Head” and “Tail”: The Shaping of Oral Traditions among the Binandere in Papua New Guinea John D. Waiko Supplemental Materials About the Authors