ABSTRACT
The cross-cousin connection between clubhouses involves the converse: explicit containment of potential contestation by a politically contrived balance of control. In the Hanahan district it is the network of relationships between clubhouses which provides the framework for political interaction within and between the main productive groups. The magic and prowess of the house of bows of Tabunakulu in the middle of the bay at Hanahan is generally said to have stood out from others of the same kind. The man at Hanahan who, in 1952, distributed ninety pigs from his house was the foremost of a number of tsunono active in the district in what is clearly remembered as a notable flowering of clubhouse activity soon after the war. The tax issue came to a head on Buka in January 1959 when Saharia, the chief and Paramount Luluai at Hanahan, 'harangued his people as to the advisability of paying the tax'.
