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 164
y amateur ethnographic accounts of sailing,where cheap fun is made by speaking of roughly hewn dug-outs in terms ofdreadnoughts or Royal Yachts, just as simple, savage chiefs are referredto as Kings in a jocular vein. Such humour is doubtless natural andrefreshing, but when we approach these… … A MASAWA CANOE. Nigada Bua, the sea-going canoe of Omarakana, showing general form, orna-mentation of prowboards, the leaf-shaped paddles and the form of the out-riggerlog. (See Div. I and II, also next Chap.). PLATE XXII
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