 Following the change of name to Tuvalu, the English translation by Guy Slatter was published under the title "The Material Culture of Tuvalu".In the early 1960s the elders of the islands retained memories of the late 19th century before the influence of the Christian missionaries (who were predominantly Samoan missionaries that were trained by the London Missionary Society) and the European traders and colonial administrators had impacted on the cultures of the islands.This allowed Koch to record the traditional music of Tuvalu and film traditional Tuvaluan dancing such as the "fakanau", "fakaseasea" and "fatele".