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No. 1 — MARCH 1977 Edited by Judith Huntsman
• Notes and News 3
• Main Articles:
• Possession, Dependence and Responsibility in the Rapanui Language. By Emily Ross Mulloy and Sergio Alejo Rapu 7
• Centrality in the Kula Ring. By Per Hage 27
• Archaeological Studies in Dusky and Breakwater Sounds, South-Western Fiordland, New Zealand: A Summary. By Peter F.J. Coutts 37
• Shorter Communications:
• Protein and Population in Tropical Polynesia. By Stephen Beckerman 73
• Origin of a Maramataka. By Charles Devonshire 81
• History and Oral Traditions: A Case Study. By Rolf Kuschel and Torben Monberg 85
• On the Origins of the Sakao Vowel System (New Hebrides). By J.B.M. Guy 97
• Kapauku Numeration: Reckoning, Racism, Scholarship, and Melanesian Counting Systems. By Nancy Bowers 105
• Review Article:
• Langdon, Robert, The Lost Caravel. By Bengt Danielsson 117
• Reviews 125
• Minutes of the Annual General Meetings, 1976 145
• Publications Received 149

No. 2 — JUNE 1977 Edited by Judith Huntsman
• Notes and News 155
• Main Articles:
• ‘The Father's Sister is Black’: A Consideration of Female Rank and Power in Tonga. By Garth Rogers 157
• The Culture of Gender in Pukapuka: Male, Female and the Mayakitanga ‘Sacred Maid’. By Julia Hecht 183
• Reduplication in West Futuna. By Janet W.D. Dougherty 207
• The Mauna Kea Adze Quarry Project: A Summary of the 1975 Field Investigations. By Patrick C. McCoy 223
• Motives and Methods: Missionaries in Tonga in the Early 19th Century. By Charles F. Urbanowicz 245
• Shorter Communications:
• Trephination in Oceania. By Philip Houghton 265
• Correspondence 271
• Reviews 273
• Publications Received 297

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No. 3 — SEPTEMBER 1977 Edited by Judith Huntsman
• Notes and News 303
• Main Articles:
• The Maori Adze: An Explanation for Change. By Simon Best 307
• “On Whom Depends the Action of the Elements”: Debating among the Chambri People of Papua New Guinea. By Deborah Gewertz 339
• Maori as an Accusative Language. By Sandra Chung 355
• Social Individualisation on Tabiteuea Atoll. By William H. Geddes 371
• Shorter Communications:
• D8(Mead): A Study of a Maori Mantle Acquired by Sir Joseph Banks during Cook's First Visit to New Zealand. By A. T. Porter 393
• Volcanic Ash, Hailstorm and Crops: Oral History from the Eastern Highlands. By Ronald Skeldon 403
• On Polynesian NP and VP Determiners. By Eric P. Hamp 411
• Recent Excavations on Three Atolls in the Caroline Islands: A Note. By Keiko Fujimura and William H. Alkire 413
• Reviews 415
• Minutes of Annual General Meeting, 1977 439
• Publications Received 441

No. 4 — DECEMBER 1977 Edited by Judith Huntsman
• Notes and News 447
• Main Articles:
• The Whence of the Maori: Nineteenth Century Exercises in Scientific Method. By M.P.K. Sorrenson 449
• The Application of Form and Redaction Criticism to Hawaiian Literature. By John Charlot 479
• Shorter Communications:
• Melpa Food-Names as an Expression of Ideas on Identity and Substance. By A.J. Strathern 503
• “Consanguinity” and Filiation on Namonuito Atoll. By John Byron Thomas 513
• The Sweet Potato in the South-Eastern Solomons. By Harold M. Ross 521
• Missionary Accounts of Fofō Mo'omo'o. By R.J. Crawford 531
• Correspondence 535
• Reviews 537
• Publications Received 559