The Ways of the South Seas Savage: A Record of Travel & Observation Amongst the Savages of the Solomon Islands & Primitive & Coast & Mountain Peoples of New GuineaSeeley, Service, 1914 - 292 sider |
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The Ways of the South Seas Savage: A Record of Travel and Observation ... Robert W. Williamson Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2012 |
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adzes afterwards animal attack bamboo bark cloth big feast Bismarck Archipelago boat body British New Guinea bush cannibal canoe carriers carry cassowary ceremony chief clan coco-nut coloured dancers Dancing Decorations Dilava district drums exogamy expedition Fathers feet fish front funeral gardens ghost girl Gizo grave ground guests Guinea hand head Ido-Ido killed Kulambangra Kuni Kuni village Lapeka leaves Mafulu magic marriage matters Mekeo villages Melanesians mission station Mount Davidson mountains mourning native night ornaments Oroi palm party performance perhaps perineal band person pig-killer platform Port Moresby probably reef regarded relatives ridge river Roro shell side singing skulls and bones snake Solomon Islands sometimes song sorcerers spears spirits stone sweet potato Sychele taboo things travelling tree usually vegetable village club-house village enclosure village pigs whilst wife women worn yams Yule Island
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Side 65 - The Melanesian mind is entirely possessed by the belief in a supernatural power or influence, called almost universally "mana." This is what works to effect everything which is beyond the ordinary power of men, outside the common processes of nature; it is present in the atmosphere of life, attaches itself to persons and to things, and is manifested by results which can only be ascribed to its operation.
Side 65 - If a man has been successful in fighting, it has not been his natural strength of arm, quickness of eye, or readiness of resource that has won success; he has certainly got the mana of a spirit or of some deceased warrior to empower him, conveyed in an amulet of a stone round his neck, or a tuft of leaves in his belt, in a tooth hung upon a finger of his bow hand, or in the form of words with which he brings supernatural assistance to his side.
Side 239 - These poles are connected with one another by long stems, fixed horizontally to them at a height of seven or eight feet from the ground, the stems thus forming a sort of long line or girdle encircling the village enclosure.
Side 277 - Here the operator takes a piece of bark cloth, with which she rubs the front of the patient's body, but without any incantation. Then, as she removes the cloth from the body, she makes a movement as though she were wrapping up in it something, presumably the escaped snake ; and afterwards she carries the cloth away with her, and the cure is thus effected. A man with toothache will say that
Side 66 - ... with a spirit or ghost that he has mana in himself also, and can so direct it as to effect what he desires ; a charm is powerful because the name of a spirit or ghost expressed in the form of words brings into it the power which the ghost or spirit exercises through it.
Side 276 - ... remnants of recently consumed vegetable -food as a medium for causing illness and death is confined to the case of a victim who has passed the stage of very young childhood. A man or woman never carelessly throws aside h'is own food remnants of this character; and his reason for this is fear of sorcery. He carefully keeps them under his control until he can take them to a river, into which he throws' them, after which they are harmless as a medium against him. The fear concerning these remains...
Side 65 - It is a power or influence, not physical, and in a way supernatural; but it shows itself in physical force, or in any kind of power or excellence which a man possesses.
Side 66 - But this power, though itself impersonal, is always connected with some person who directs it; all spirits have it, ghosts generally, some men. If a stone is found to have a supernatural power, it is because a spirit has associated itself with it; a dead man's bone has with it mana, because the ghost is with the bone; a man may have so close a connection with a spirit or ghost that he has mana...
Side 212 - ... upon it. Houses are never sold, but the ordinary life of a house is only a few years. The man's bush land is his own property, and his ownership includes all trees and growth which may be upon it, and these no other man may cut down ; but it does not include game, this being the common property of the community, and any member of the community is entitled to pass over the land, hunt on it, and fish in streams pass220 ing through it, as he pleases.
Side 66 - Q and most men in fact do have it, either by discovery of their own or by knowledge imparted to them by those who have before employed it. If the object of worship, as in some sacrifices, is one common to the members of a community, the man who knows how to approach that object is in a way their priest and sacrifices for them all ; but it is in respect of that particular function only that he has a sacred character...