A mataqali (pronounced [mataŋˈɡali]) is a Fijian clan or landowning unit. Culture of Fiji Fijian traditions and ceremonies University of the South Pacific...

small government allowance. Similarly, the chief of a Mataqali (clan) is known as the Turaga-ni-mataqali. The exact historical status of the Turaga played...

people of Yanuya are the custodians of Monuriki. With the agreement of the Mataqali Navunaivi of Yank village the National Trust of Fiji wild-life experts...

called the Mataqali. Each mataqali became the custodian of a specific task. A fully developed Yavusa has several mataqali: Turaga: This mataqali descends...

units of the extended family (tokatoka), clan (mataqali), tribe (yavusa), and land (vanua). Each mataqali is presided over by a chief, styled Ratu if male...

several family units / Tokatoka which are part of one clan or Mataqali. Several Mataqali will make up the larger tribe or Yavusa. Several Yavusa will belong...

in 1920, and he had to return to Fiji to take his place as head of the mataqali, or clan. He brought with him a tailored isulu, a skirt worn by men, which...

from, and which comprises the Mataqali Vunivesi. The other two tribes were the Yavusa Sawa, consisting of the Mataqali Rokoraite, and the Yavusa Burenitu...

of Tikina, Lomaloma and consists of 9 villages, 13 Yavusa (tribes), 42 Mataqali (clans), and 54 family units known as Tokatoka. The nine villages of Lomaloma...

prepared dishes. Most land in Fiji is owned by native land owners – the mataqali (extended family unit). Savusavu and surrounding areas has a large amount...

Chief and provided him with a service, and from here derives the terms Mataqali and Bati. Bati is now understood in Fijian Culture as the term for the...

September 2005 as the third in his family from the Uluda Household within the Mataqali Tunavitilevu and Tokatoka VaividiTu Navitilevu, or Paramount Chief of Rakiraki...

The appointment of the Tui Sabeto is now normally carried out by the Mataqali Buasali, not the kingmakers or the Sauturaga as in other traditions. Society...

led by the Taukei Navitarutaru. The tribe is divided into 4 clans, or "mataqali," namely Navitarutaru, Nabasara, Tabua and Nakete, each clan with its own...

Within the Fijian nation, Matanivanua is the name of a Mataqali (clan). The Fijian word means "eye of the land". This clan is renowned as eloquent and...

Vunivalu of Bau 6. Roko Senivaivai Tevita Uluilakeba III 18??-19?? Lady of Mataqali Naivi, Tubou 7. Lala Mara Ratu Sir Kamisese Kapaiwai Tuimacilai Mara 1931-2004...

Naibalebale is the capital of Viwa as the headship of the Vanua is in it. Mataqali Veruku, inside Tokatoka Veruku is the leading Tokatoka where the Turaga...

reason as to why the Navatu people of Cakaudrove considers Verata as their 'Mataqali or Mata'(a form of name calling usually done within the confederacy of...

Serumataidrau, was selected from the Vuaniivi, a Tokatoka Valelevu of the Mataqali and the Yavusa Ratu Vuani-ivi Buca clan, which had settled at Namuka. Naulivou...

while Buaserau was working), when his uncle died. Buaserau, is from the Mataqali o Naqaranikula, Tokatoka o Vatiri, Yavusa o Nasautoka/Navuakece, in the...

Sovasova is married to Adi Litiana Ro Vataleba Marakiwai of Natewa, from the Mataqali Valenisau - one of the two clans from which the Vunivalu of Natewa is chosen...

sister, Adi Ateca Ganilau, said that discussions between the family and the mataqali (clan) were ongoing. She said there was no time limit; her father had been...

(1987–1993). Like his late father, Ratu Epeli was a member of the same Mataqali Valelevu (the tribal landowning unit) of which the Tui Cakau is the head...

Suva is only kept within the Naivutuvutu family of the Tokatoka Solia of Mataqali Vuanimocelolo of the Yavusa Vatuwaqa. In 2008 he was involved with a land...

resting place but only after he gained a place among them as a member of the Mataqali (clan) Waqanitabua. He visited Belize in 1969 and spoke at the 25th anniversary...

Lau, Tikina ko Lomaloma, Koro ko Sawana, Vanua ko Lau, Yavusa ko Toga, Mataqali ko Toga, O ira na lewe ni tokatoka ko HA'APAI, No. 2, Entry no. 204 "Charlie...

village Taulevu. The Taukei ni Waluvu as head of Yavusa Siko includes the mataqalis: Siko Natabutale (Nairukuruku), Siko Navunisalusalu of Taulevu village...

Chief or the Turaga I Taukei of the Yavusa (tribe) Vusaratu Vuaniivi Buca, Mataqali (clan) Vusaratu Vuaniivi Buca, and Tokatoka (family unit) Valelevu. According...

MATANITOBUA - Ratu Suliano MATANITOBUA - Matanivanua - Mataniwai River - Mataqali - Josh MATAVESI - MATAWALU - Nikola MATAWALU - Matei Airport - Josua MATEINANIU...

made out. In all likelihood the 'Mataqalikira' refers in fact to the 'Mataqali ira ni Tui Kaba' or half brothers and first cousins of Ratu Seru Cakobau...