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 143
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… … 5 1 QwZ 8 Q < THE ESSENTIALS OF THE KULA 89 And then arose before me the vision of a native village oncoral soil, and a small, rickety platform temporarily erectedunder a pandanus thatch, surrounded by a number of brown,naked men, and one of them showing me long, thin red strings,and big, white,…
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