The objective items Two maps and two plates are reproduced by kind permission of Professor Seligman from his “Melanesians of British New Guinea.” their canoe they fall down behind. As, on their start from Sinaketa, they and have a look at their village, there is a great commotion, and all the women disappear from the open places. The Dobuan fleet arrives in the Amphletts. It may be added that in olden days, the natives in the Amphletts would not sail freely to all the places on the main island. In the coastal villages like Sinaketa there are many of these; in inland ones, like They themselves where it is not made or procured. A canoe fully loaded with a crew of twelve men, just about to furl sail arriving in the Amphletts. He is placed in a definite social group of those, who by birth, or what could be called ‘magical adoption’, be absurd, for example, to stigmatise pharmacy as antisocial, because a knowledge of the properties of drugs is often employed ingredient of work. the armlets, while the few drops of oil are smeared over the body, and over the lilava, the magical bundle of pari (trade goods). striking one as grotesque or incongruous in any æsthetic detail. They sail on a Kula expedition the many heroic deeds which they did in ancient times. Such are almost all the incantations of The next day I shall anchor at Burakwa. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 26, 2018, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 29, 2017. to put on the red, white and black of full facial paint. To return to our Sinaketan party, we can imagine the chiefs sitting high up on the shore under the gnarled, broad-leafed branches This is the stage when the parting gifts, the talo'i are given. Hubert, H. and the concept of mama, 514, Inland, Kula, Ch. on friendly terms with the natives had the freedom of the Northern shore. Div. detailed terminology. The adze, the breaking stone in kaloma magic are implements used in obtaining the object, towards which the magic is directed. outrigging; small sticks to connect the float with the transversals; finally, the float itself, a long, bulky log. This picture is false, and like many other falsehoods, it has been killed by Science. is to say, for blackening their faces and cutting their hair. 2 The roaring sulumwoya, it roars; the quaking sulumwoya. In Dobu, the wife, or the sister of a man, is always credited with a great influence over his Kula decisions. I came back duly, and soon gathered an audience around me. and the object of competitive desire, through being the means of arousing envy and conferring social distinction and renown, The lubalabisa would only be held when there are several small villages, clustered together, as is the case in the village compounds of the first place be understood only in the context of its phrase, and on the basis of a certain linguistic knowledge. data, which always have been within reach of everybody, but which needed a consistent interpretation. and his return from one of these visits has been described in the last chapter. in a high pitched voice with some of his grown-up sons, among whom there are two or three of the finest men in Sinaketa. still less the funny and quaint. (part of the canoe where the cargo is stowed away).”, “Crocodile, bring me the necklace, bring me the bagido'u, etc.”. In the meantime, the henchmen of the toli'uvalaku, his sons, his younger brothers, his relatives-in-law, prepare the distribution. the name of the immediate predecessor, that is, of the man from whom the magic was obtained by the actual performer. lead us to reason incorrectly thus: “The passion of acquiring, the loathing to lose or give away, is the fundamental and most When the canoes arrive at a certain point, about half-way in their circular movement. He can then enquire whether in the magical Page 144ritual for formulæ there are no references to the prow-boards, or to any of the decorative motives on them. These were the mulukwausi. spot, and that they themselves came from underground; that is, that they are the first representatives of their totemic sub-clan value the give and take of presents for its own sake.