Bibliography: p. 495-500.
"This book gives the result of some eight months of field work in the mandated territory of Western Samoa and in American Samoa...Carried out under the auspices of the International research committee of the Institute of Pacific relations...it forms part of a general research project on 'dependencies and native peoples of the Pacific', initiated at the third biennial conference of that body held during 1929."-Foreword.
"First published in 1934."