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 LXV … A CORPSE CO\ ERED WITH VALUABLES A great number of valuables, including large axe blades, with which this man was covered at dying, have been already withdrawn. Only personal possessions are left on the corpse, and they will be removed immediately before the interment. (See p. 512.) [face p. 512
Ethnology -- New Guinea · Barter · Folklore -- New Guinea · Magic · Trobriand Islands
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