Argonauts of the Western Pacific / An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea

List of Illustrations

	A ceremonial act of the kula	Frontispiece
Plate		Facing page
I	The ethnographer’s tent on the beach of Nu’agasi	6
II	The chief’s lisiga (personal hut) in Omarakana	6
III	Street of Kasana’i (in Kiriwina, Trobriand Island)	7
IV	Scene in Yourawotu (Trobriands)	7
V	Scenes on the beach of Silosilo (Southern Massim district)	33
VI	Village scenes during a so’i feast	37
VII	In the Amphletts	46
VIII	Group of natives in the village of Tukwa’ukwa	48
IX	Men of rank from Kiriwina	49
X	Fishermen from Teyava	49
XI	A typical nakubukwabuya (unmarried woman)	52
XII	Boyowan girls	53
XIII	Kaydebu dance	56
XIV	Dancers in full decoration	57
XV	A family group	72
XVI	Armshells	80
XVII	Two men wearing armshells	81
XVIII	Two necklaces, made of red spondylus discs	88
XIX	Two women adorned with necklaces	89
XX	A Kula gathering on the beach of Sinaketa	98
XXI	A masawa canoe	106
XXII	Putting a canoe into its hangar	106
XXIII	Canoe under sail	107
XXIV	The fishing canoe (kalipoulo)	112
XXV	The dug-out in the village	124
XXVI	Carving a tabuyo	125
XXVII	Construction of a waga	138
XXVIII	Sail making	139
XXIX	Rolls of dried pandanus leaf	139
XXX	Launching of a canoe	148
XXXI	The tasasoria on the beach of Kaulukuba	148
XXXII	A chief’s yam-house in Kasana’i	149
XXXIII	Filling a yam-house in Yalumugwa	149 Map I—The native names and their spelling on this and the following map conform to the traditional nomenclature to be found on charts and old maps. Maps III–V show, the native names as ascertained by myself and phonetically spelled. Clyx.com