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OCEANIC MYTHOLOGY

BY ROLAND B. DIXON, PH.D.

PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY HARVARD UNIVERSITY
VOLUME IX OF THE MYTHOLOGY OF ALL RACES IN THIRTEEN VOLUMES
LOUIS HERBERT GRAY, A.M., PH.D., EDITOR GEORGE FOOT MOORE, A.M., D.D., LL.D., CONSULTING EDITOR,

BOSTON

MARSHALL JONES COMPANY

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COPYRIGHT, 1916, By MARSHALL JONES COMPANY
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London
All rights reserved
Printed September, 1916
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
BOUND BY THE BOSTON BOOKBINDING COMPANY

Scanned at sacred-texts.com, May, 2002, John B. Hare redactor.

Image of Kuila-moku, one of the Hawaiian patron deities of medicine. Prayers and offerings were made to him by the Kahuna, or shamans, when trying to cure patients. Peabody Museum, Massachusetts


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