Blackwood 1935

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Sections

• 1.4 Household Artefacts
  • Instruments of communication and music
  • Slitgong
• 1.5 Horticultural Practices
  • Introduction
• 1.8 Fishing and Hunting Implements
  • Fish poison
• 2.6 Navigation and the heavens
  • Navigation in Western Oceania
• 3.12 The coconut palm
  • Growth stage terminologies
• 3.13 Other cultivated plants
  • Crinum asiaticum, spider lily (Amatyllidaceae)
• 6.2 Kinship
  • Nakanai terms and their definition
  • Appendix to chapter 2: Ethnographic sources
• 6.4 Social rank and lunations
  • Political systems in Oceanic-speaking societies of Melanesia
• 6.6 Recreation: Music, song, dance, games
  • Bow
  • Slitgong or garamut
• 6.7 The spirit world
  • Non-human spirits
• 6.8 Magic and the supernatural
  • The invocation
  • Powerful substances
  • Preparation for magic
• 6.10 Tabu
  • Food restrictions (+ kin)
• 6.13 Trade, exchange, distribution and transfer of possession
  • Development of trade patterns
  • Teeth
  • Payment for services

Words

• Tinputz: pokpoko jew’s harp
• Tinputz: asam Lygodium circinnatum
• Petats: ka-karut nut containing liquid before flesh appears
• Tinputz: kaʔur, waʔur larger panpipes with mouthpiece, usually of three reeds of different diameter
• Petats: pokpoko jew’s harp
• Hahon: koŋkoŋo musical bow
• Petats: tsūbu(n) restriction on actions such as the eating of certain food by specified persons or at specified times, or the avoidance to be observed between individuals who stand to each other in certain relationships. Not applied to places or persons