Note: Ted Schwartz discusses Manus mythology. Begins with a creation myth about a grandmother and her two sons, one of whom is a serpent, the other an eagle. Tape recorder elicits longer myth than taking notes by hand. Ted Schwartz describes content of tapes of singing from the Admiralty Islands, including Sepic boys from the interior singing at a Christmas “sing sing”; a three-day feast. They are not acculturated. Some drummed and a few sang but most danced. Discussion of the slit-gong orchestra. Myth of totem animals and clan ownership of orchestra positions. Long discussion of Murdock classifications: family organization, co-wives and monogamy. Cross-cousin marriage. Usiai have same kind of cross-cousin marriage as Manus, but put it back a generation from second to third cousins. Ideal is to marry on mother’s side. Types of agriculture. Murdock's classification system is limited because it depends on the limitations of the IBM system; results are rather crude and reductive, and also distorted, because of lack of qualification (exceptions, etc.). Other categories: settlement pattern, jurisdictional hierarchy, types of games, presence or absence of genital mutilation (Manus say they don’t circumcise, but appear circumcised), animal husbandry, metal/leather working, weaving, pottery, gathering of plants and small animals, fishing and shellfish gathering. Sex participation in same.