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Overview
In Ivens’s Marriage Negotiations, a canoe party seeking a wife for Poro-wauru-i’esi encounters impassable waves near Hu’atea. Poro-wauna-ahe breaks them by magic, allowing the five canoes through; the waves then close behind the travellers. Ivens’s geographical note identifies Hu’atea as a dangerous rock off Ulawa’s South Cape. The subsequent coastal itinerary and marriage arrangements place this brief supernatural intervention within a particular narrated voyage rather than a general account of ocean gods.
The following Theft of the Bride gives him another intervention. When Poro-wauru-i-kela carries Hua-pua-kere-manu away by canoe, Poro-wauna-ahe sees them and blocks their escape with breakers. They remain confined for four nights. Release follows a statement that the woman wishes to remain with the man; the source’s pronoun does not clearly identify that speaker. Later the original husband retrieves her after a violent attack, and Poro-wauna-ahe races with their canoe in the storm on its return. The account supplies control of waves and movement alongside a canoe, but no animal form, physical portrait or explicit divine genealogy.
Origins & earliest records
W. G. Ivens, Native Stories from Ulawa, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 44 (1914), pp. 163–194; III Marriage Negotiations, English rendering pp. 184–188, and IV Theft of the Bride, pp. 192–194.
Records & interpretation
Historical article prints Ulawa text, interlinear glosses, English renderings and explanatory notes. Complete English III and IV and relevant notes inspected in the original-volume OCR; original-language collation and page-pixel verification remain separate.
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Native Stories from Ulawa: III Marriage Negotiations and IV Theft of the Bride
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 44, article pp. 163–194. Selected complete English narratives pp. 184–188 and 192–194; relevant geographical and explanatory notes retained. No individually named narrator supplied in the article opening.
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- Primary historical recorded narrativesIvens 1914: Native Stories from Ulawa, original journal volumeResearch access: 2026-10-05
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