Author: Adolph Brewster BREWSTERPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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The Hill Tribes of Fiji ... With Illustrations & Maps
Author: Adolph Brewster BREWSTERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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The Hill Tribes of Fiji
Author: Adolph Brewster BrewsterPublisher:
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Category : Fiji
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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The Hill Tribes of Fiji
Author: A. B. BrewsterThe Hill Tribes of Fiji
Author: Adolph Brewster BrewsterPublisher:
ISBN: 9780384056909
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Hill Tribes of Fiji
Author: AnonymousPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016817509
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Hill Tribes of Fiji
Author: A. B. BrewsterPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781333954208
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Excerpt from The Hill Tribes of Fiji: A Record of Forty Years' Intimate Connection With the Tribes of the Mountainous Interior of Fiji With a Description of Their Habits in War Peace, Methods of Living, Characteristics Mental Physical, From the Days of Cannibalism to the Present Time Kat/a drinking is considered by many to be a disgusting ceremony from the supposed method of its preparation. The popular idea is that its roots are chewed up, spat into a bowl, infused with water and served out for drinking in coco-nut shell cups. That is the Tongan method, the mastication being done by pretty young girls, whose beauty is supposed to counteract the filthy method of produc tion. In the beginning and middle of the past century Fiji was nearly conquered by Tongan adventurers, and they were only pre vented from doing so by the intervention of Great Britain. They succeeded in introducing many of their customs, and amongst them their fashion of preparing lawn. The ancient Fijian way was to pound up the roots with stones, and the whole 'process was done by young men. Priests when supplicating the ancestral gods and praying for the welfare of the tribe, figuratively mentioned the youthful warriors as ling-a yangana, i.e. The hands that brewed the yangana or kava. When became a British Colony the medical officers objected to the chewing of the national drink on sanitary grounds. We were at once assured by the people that they would willingly return to the orthodox ancient method of pounding it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Recent Geographical Literature, Maps and Photographs
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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The Bookman
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Author: Orientalia
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Category : Middle Eastern philology
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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