# Inspector task sheet

Funafuti's Kauga: swimmers remembered as spirits

## 1. Trace the earliest accessible record

For Funafuti's Kauga: swimmers remembered as spirits, record author or storyteller, collection date, language, translation, page and exact scope. Distinguish evidence of a story being told from evidence of its events. Note which full documents remain unavailable.

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## 2. Investigate the central question

Retrieve the full article and its collection notes, then compare Tuvaluan-language accounts and the 1983 Funafuti and religion chapters. Track place names, named narrators, interpreter choices and uncertain personal spellings. Keep the writer's inference distinct from attributed testimony. Seek dated maritime evidence only if testing a specific arrival event.

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## 3. Compare explanations without merging evidence

Compare attributed local versions and historical place-name records. Identify the inference explicitly and compare it with fuller local accounts. Preserve contradictions and unsuccessful searches; proposed work remains unperformed.

Status: proposed; not completed.
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