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 462
have shown. None the less,it is possible for an Ethnographer to enter into concrete detailswith more conviction when he describes things actually seen. In September, 1917, an uvalaku expedition was led byKoutauya from Sinaketa to Dobu. The Vakutans joiningthem on the way, and the canoes of the… … a « X c £~3 THE DOBUANS IN SINAKETA 377 about six months time. Kauyaporu, the esaesa (headman)of Kesorai hamlet in the village of Bwayowa, had a pig withcircular tusks. He decided therefore to arrange an uvalakuexpedition, at the beginning of which the pig was to be killedand feasted upon and its…
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