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Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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Fi(i 101.—Working-adze with jade blade. New Caledonia. into nets. Cooking is performed by heated stones or locally inl)ots or shells, fire being procured by friction, usually l)y rubbinga stick along a groove. A mild intoxicant is prepared from the2)iper mcfJiifsficuni in Fiji, New Hebrides, and Banks Islands, l)utthe i^ractice has undoubtedly been introduced from Polynesia. Betelchewing is found as far east as Santa Cruz (fig. 100). Cannibalismoccurs sporadically in all the groups except the Banks Islands andSanta Cru/ (fig. 2); the victims are almost invariably foemen killedin battle. Canoes are found everywhere; even the Tasmaniansconstructed canof-shaped rafts of Ijark. The commonest craft isthe dug-oul with single outrigger, which is Connd almost every- 124 OCEANIA
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Fig 102—Ceremonial axe with jade blade, the handle bound withflying-fox fur braid. New Caledonia. THE PAPUASIANS 125 where except in pari of the Solomon Ishands ; here fineh-madeplank-built canoes are found, often ornamented with shell inlay.Large double canoes are built in Fiji, New Caledonia, and NewGuinea ; these are furnished with sails, and are capable of perform-ing considerable voyages. Thus pottery is traded along the coastof New Guinea ; drums, arrows, and clubs from New Guinea toTorres Straits, &c. Various forms of currency are in use in different islands, butstrings of small shell discs are universal; other forms are whalesteeth (Fiji); flying-fox-fur braid (New Caledonia); mats (NewHebrides) ; arrows (Torres Island); feathers (Santa Cruz); por-poise-teeth and shields (Solomon Islands); stone axes (NewGuinea).
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Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
Subjects:
Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Fi(i 101.—Working-adze with jade blade. New Caledonia. into nets. Cooking is performed by heated stones or locally inl)ots or shells, fire being procured by friction, usually l)y rubbinga stick along a groove. A mild intoxicant is prepared from the2)iper mcfJiifsficuni in Fiji, New Hebrides, and Banks Islands, l)utthe i^ractice has undoubtedly been introduced from Polynesia. Betelchewing is found as far east as Santa Cruz (fig. 100). Cannibalismoccurs sporadically in all the groups except the Banks Islands andSanta Cru/ (fig. 2); the victims are almost invariably foemen killedin battle. Canoes are found everywhere; even the Tasmaniansconstructed canof-shaped rafts of Ijark. The commonest craft isthe dug-oul with single outrigger, which is Connd almost every- 124 OCEANIA
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Fig 102—Ceremonial axe with jade blade, the handle bound withflying-fox fur braid. New Caledonia. THE PAPUASIANS 125 where except in pari of the Solomon Ishands ; here fineh-madeplank-built canoes are found, often ornamented with shell inlay.Large double canoes are built in Fiji, New Caledonia, and NewGuinea ; these are furnished with sails, and are capable of perform-ing considerable voyages. Thus pottery is traded along the coastof New Guinea ; drums, arrows, and clubs from New Guinea toTorres Straits, &c. Various forms of currency are in use in different islands, butstrings of small shell discs are universal; other forms are whalesteeth (Fiji); flying-fox-fur braid (New Caledonia); mats (NewHebrides) ; arrows (Torres Island); feathers (Santa Cruz); por-poise-teeth and shields (Solomon Islands); stone axes (NewGuinea).
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