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 610
is relatives and relatives-in-law bring in loan for theoccasion, to take it back when all is over while the mans ownvaygua are left on the corpse for some time after death (seePlate LXV). Various rationalised versions and justificationsof this custom are given. Thus it is said to be a gift to… … A CORPSE COVERED WITH VALUABLES. A great number of valuables, including large axe blades, withwhich this man was covered at dying, have been already withdrawn.Only personal possessions are left on the corpse, and they will beremoved immediately before the interment. THE MEANING OF THE KULA 513 last…
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