Origin of yams (sweet potatoes, taro)

Motif

Origin of yams (sweet potatoes, taro).

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Acquisition of culture. · Acquisition of food supply for human race. · view the constellation · filed as A1423.1

Filed across the traditions

Tonga Gifford 163, 169
Easter Island Métraux Ethnology 317.
general Samoa, Maori, Tonga: Beckwith Myth 101
general Kai of New Guinea: ibid. 104

Within the index

Filed under Acquisition of vegetables and cereals.

Filed beside it

Hoarded plants released Acquisition of rice. (Cf. A2685.) Origin of coconut Acquisition of manioc

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