# Inspector task sheet

Sina and the eel: whose face is in the coconut?

## 1. Trace the earliest accessible record

For Sina and the eel: whose face is in the coconut?, 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

Compare complete texts and their teller or editor notes. Make a variant table for the eel's origin, pursuit, death and coconut ending. Preserve Samoan names and translation choices. Investigate the pool association through local histories with attributed dates, keeping literary adaptation separate from oral collection.

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## 3. Compare explanations without merging evidence

Compare whole versions and document the adaptation history. Separate place tradition from an independently dated physical claim. Preserve contradictions and unsuccessful searches; proposed work remains unperformed.

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