Argonauts of the western Pacific; an account of native enterprise and adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea. With a pref. by Sir James George Frazer (1922)
Plate XXXVI SCENE IN THE \X ASI (CEREMONIAL EXCHANGE OF VEGETABLES FOR FISH) The inland party have brought their yams by boat to the village of Cburaku, which is practi- cally inaccessible by land. They are putting up the vegetables into square, wooden crates in order to carry them ceremonially and… … ^1^^ VAVA, DIRECT BARTER OF X'EGETABLES FOR FISH In the picture, the inland natives exchange bundles of taro directly for fish, without observing the rites and ceremonies obligatory in a n'asi. (See p. 190.) {face p. 161
Ethnology -- New Guinea · Barter · Folklore -- New Guinea · Magic · Trobriand Islands
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