Argonauts of the western Pacific; an account of native enterprise and adventure in the archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea (1922)
Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942 · London, G. Routledge & Sons, ltd.; New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. · leaf 142
of how some of them had been taken overto London, to the great and just indignation of the wholeScottish nation, how they were restored, and how now everyonecan be pleased, since they are safe under lock and key, and noone can touch them. As I was looking at them and thinkinghow ugly, useless,… … TWO NECKLACES, MADE OF RED SPONDYLUSDISCS.On the left, the soulava, or bagi, the real Kula article.On the right, the katudababile (or samakupa, as it is calledamong the Southern Massim), made of bigger discs, manu-factured in the villages of Sinaketa and Vakuta (TrobriandIslands). This latter…
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