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 203
SAIL MAKING. Within a couple of hours a number of men perform this enormous task of sewingtogether small bands of pandanus leaf (see Div. Ill and next Chap. Div. II) tillthey form a sail. Among the workers there is an albino. PLATE XXIX … ROLLS OF DRIED PANDANUS LEAF. This is the material of which the sail is made. The bisila (pandanus streamer)is made of a softer variety of pandanus leaf, bleached at a fire. BUILDING OF WAGA 139 die away, disappear, vanish with an eddy, vanish withthe mist; make your imprint in the sand, cut…
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