Tamambo

The Tamambo are the Melanesian people of Malo, a small volcanic island off the southern coast of Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu, and of the neighbouring islets. They fall into two groups, the Auta of the west and the Tinjivo of the east, whose speech forms the western and eastern dialects of Tamambo.

Malo holds the earliest known human settlement in Vanuatu, a Lapita site occupied around 1400 BC. The Tamambo also rear the Narave pig, held sacred on the island. European contact began when Pedro Fernandes de Queirós's Spanish expedition reached the Santo area in 1606, followed by Bougainville in 1768 and Cook in 1774.