Ivens 1927

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Sections

• 1.4 Household Artefacts
  • Paint, smear, anoint
  • Hourglass or kundu drum
  • Slitgong
• 1.5 Horticultural Practices
  • Introduction
  • Food plants
  • Gaps in reconstructions
• 1.8 Fishing and Hunting Implements
  • Fish poison
• 2.9 Time
  • The moon and its phases
• 3.4 Parts of plants
  • Plant part terms reconstructable for POc
• 3.7 Wild plants of primary lowland tropical rain forest
  • Euodia spp. (Rutaceae)
• 3.9 Staple foods: root crops, bananas, breadfruit and sago
  • Root crops
  • Yams, Dioscorea spp.
  • Colocasia esculenta (syn. Colocasia antiquorum), taro, Asian taro, TP taro tru (Araceae)
• 3.11 Nut and fruit trees
  • Canarium spp. (Burseraceae)
  • Parartocarpus venenosa (syn. Parartocarpus involucrata) (Moraceae)
• 3.13 Other cultivated plants
  • Dracaena angustifolia (Liliaceae)
• 4.2 Fish
  • Skipjacks, Spanish mackerels, mackerels, tunas, tunnies, albacores, wahoos (Scombridae)
• 4.7 Insects and other creepy-crawlies
  • Butterflies (Order Lepidoptera = ‘scaly wings’)
• 6.2 Kinship
  • Appendix to chapter 2: Ethnographic sources
• 6.4 Social rank and lunations
  • Political systems in Oceanic-speaking societies of Melanesia
  • Sa’a (Malaita, Solomon Is.)
• 6.5 Settlement patterns and territory in the Proto Oceanic speech community
  • Kinds of domestic buildings
• 6.6 Recreation: Music, song, dance, games
  • Children’s chants
  • Surfing
  • Conclusion
• 6.7 The spirit world
  • Introduction
  • Ancestral spirit
  • Soul as life force
  • Non-human spirits
• 6.8 Magic and the supernatural
  • Powerful substances
  • Offerings
  • First fruits
  • The practitioners
  • Role of trance
  • Sorcery using leavings
• 6.9 Mana
  • Possible cognates from the Northwest Solomons
• 6.10 Tabu
  • Food restrictions (+ kin)
  • Safeguarding supply
  • Identifying the sacred
• 6.11 Seasonal cycles and lunations
  • Named seasons
  • Palolo risings
  • Canarium arboriculture
  • Wild plants
  • Southeast Solomons
  • Reconstructions
• 6.13 Trade, exchange, distribution and transfer of possession
  • Teeth
  • Brideprice
  • Sacrifice to the ancestors

Words

• Sa’a: akalo ghost, spirit soul of a living man, ghost of an ordinary person
• Sa’a: uraʔi-ŋe offering made to a ghost; relics include porpoise teeth etc. worn by priest round neck when going to battle; if to a ghost shark, thrown into sea
• Sa’a: na-nama be powerful, exercise force
• Ulawa: mana ending in invocations, meaning unknown
• Sa’a: holi-holite bride price
• Ulawa: maʔahu isuli magical sleep to trace anyone or find out the cause of an illness