The Mafulu: Mountain People of British New Guinea. Robert Wood Williamson

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664614186

Table of Contents

       Preface

       Plates

       Illustrations in Text

       Introduction

       Introductory

       Physique and Character

       Physique.

       Character and Temperament.

       Dress and Ornament

       Dress.

       Physical Body Decoration, &c.

       Ornaments.

       Figure 1.

       Daily Life and Matters Connected with It

       Daily Life.

       Food.

       Cooking and Eating and Their Utensils.

       Various Implements.

       Figure 2.

       Domestic Animals.

       Etiquette.

       Community, Clan, and Village Systems and Chieftainship

       Communities, Clans, and Villages.

       Figure 3.

       Chiefs, Sub-Chiefs and Notables and Their Emone

       Villages, Emone, Houses and Modes of Inter-Village Communication

       Villages and Their Emone and Houses.

       Figure 4.

       Figure 5.

       Figure 6.

       Communications.

       Government, Property, and Inheritance

       Government and Justice.

       Property and Inheritance.

       The Big Feast

       Figure 7.

       Some other Ceremonies and Feasts

       Ceremony on Birth.

       Ceremony on Assumption of Perineal Band.

       Ceremony on Admission to Emone.

       Ceremony Conferring Right to Use Drum and Dance.

       Ceremony on Devolution of Chieftainship

       Ceremony on Building of a New Emone.

       Matrimonial and Sexual

       Killing, Cannibalism, and Warfare

       Killing.

       Cannibalism.

       Warfare.

       Hunting, Fishing and Agriculture

       Hunting.

       Fishing.

       Agriculture.

       Bark Cloth Making, Netting and Art.

       Bark