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SOME PREHISTORIC FIJIAN CEREMONIAL SITES ON THE ISLAND OF VANUA LEVU, FIJI

1972; Wiley; Volume: 7; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1002/j.1834-4453.1972.tb00148.x

2204-1907

Aubrey L. Parke,

Ancient Near East History

Lot 17 is known as Namedro and is owned by the mataqali Namedro in the yavusa of Namedro (being Yavusa No. 46 in the vanua of Teiteiciva), and is situated in the district of Saqani in the province of Cakaudrove. Mataqali Namedro is the mataqali turaga of the yavusa, whose original ancestor, known as Duwani, is said to have come from Bua and established his first village at Namedro. The site lies on a rather uneven sloping part of the heavily wooded summit of the mountain range dividing the north-east end of Vanua Levu. It is situated about a quarter of a mile above the Sikanakali Creek and to the east of the junction of this creek with the Via Creek, which flows in a westerly direction until it joins the Nacula Creek, which in turn flows in a northerly direction until it becomes the Nasavu River. Although it is closer to the south coast of Vanua Levu than to the north coast, the site lies on the north side of the dividing range. It is on the track between the present villages of Nacula and Lakeba, being situated about one mile to the east of Nacula. The villagers of Nacula said that there is a name for the land on which the site is situated, but this they had forgotten. Instead they gave the name of the larger block of land, Davukenimadrai, which in turn forms part of Lot 17. The site is overgrown. No old village site is known to be nearby. The site consists of two approximately parallel, long, almost straight walls of water-worn stones with an earthen core, orientated in a west-north-west /east-southeast direction.