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 215
THE TASASORIA ON THE BEACH OF KAULUKUBA. Stepping the masts and getting the sails ready for the run. In the foreground,Touluwa, the chief of Kiriwina, standing at the mast, supervises the rigging ofNigada Bua. [face p. 148. PLATE XXXII … A CHIEFS YAM HOUSE IN KASANAI. This illustrates the display of yams in the interstices between the logs of thewell, and the decorations of cocoanuts, running round the gable, along the sup-ports and the walls. This yam house was quite recently put up and its bargeboards had not yet been erected.…
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