ABSTRACT
My first experience with collecting tales in their natural contexts was in 1965 in Porakied village, a resettled colony of Kapingamarangi people transplanted from the atoll of Kapingamarangi to Pohnpei Island in Micronesia. Kapingamarangi (hereafter called Kapinga) people, although located in Micronesia, are Polynesians who established a resettled colony on Pohnpei in 1919 after a devastating famine. Their village had grown to a population of 270 people by the time I arrived there in July 1965.
