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The Savage South Seas

Chapter 25: INDEX
By E. Way Elkington
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The author offers a traveler's account of island life across British New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the New Hebrides, blending historical notes with firsthand observation. He describes village architecture, pile dwellings and tree houses, and the construction and use of outrigger canoes and large trading lakatois. Daily practices such as fishing techniques, food preparation, betel-nut chewing, and coiffure and ornamentation receive detailed attention. Social customs covered include courtship, marriage duties, dances, mourning rituals, and the roles of witchcraft and the evil eye. Religious practices range from ancestor worship to ritual temples and sacred effigies. Economic topics include copra cultivation, labor trafficking and the activities of traders, while final chapters sketch missionary encounters and notable historical episodes.

INDEX

  • Administrator, an, 8

  • Adornments, trumpery, 172

  • Adventurers, 3, 15, 16

  • Agricultural pursuits, 23

  • Aird, river, 6

  • Ancestor warship, 153

  • Anchor, 66

  • Anchors, jamming of, 68

  • Ambryn, 147, 169

  • Americans, 12

  • Aoba, 78, 79, 81, 147, 180

  • Armlets, 42, 51

  • Arrowroot, 188

  • Arrows, the, 180

  • Attack, mode of, 99

  • Australasian Trading Company, 16

  • Australia, 11, 12

    • aboriginal of, 26

  • Australians, 7

  • Bamboo, 20

  • Bananas, 22, 24, 62, 187

  • Baskets, 176

  • Beck, Louis, 72

  • Betel-nut, chewing of, 111

  • Bibles, 14

  • “Blackbirding,” 190

  • Black labour, 10

  • Blackmailing, 50

  • Boat, the labour, 188

  • Bonita, call, 115

  • Bougainville, de, 5, 9, 10, 11, 92, 133

  • Bow and arrow, 133

  • Bracelets, 157

  • Bread-fruit trees, 177

  • British Government, 7

  • British New Guinea, 6, 8, 26, 30

    • youth of, 38

  • British subjects, 12

  • Brown, Rev. Dr., 64

  • Buka, 10

  • Bundaberg, 188

  • Burial ceremony, 166

  • Burial ground of the traders, 79, 80

  • Burns Philp, Messrs, 16, 29, 72, 81, 186

  • Bush, men of the, 22, 32

  • Call by bonito, 115

  • Canoe, 17, 23, 27, 58

    • buying of, 27

    • houses, 89

  • Canoes, big, 178

  • Cannibalism (Sol. Is.), 95

  • Capes, 49

  • Ceremonial purposes, 54

  • Ceremonies, sacred, 34

  • Ceremony, 38, 43

  • Chalmers, James, 65, 198, 199, 200

  • Chester, Mr., 7

  • Child, carrying of, 35, 36

  • Children, 32, 36

    • games of, 33

  • Cicatrices, 174

  • Civilisation, 16

  • Clark, George, 75, 77

    • death of, 78

  • Clay, 62

    • for pottery making, 62

  • Climate, 4

  • Climbing fish, 64

  • Clubs, 28

  • Cocoa-nut groves, 29

  • Cocoa-nuts, 62

  • Coffee, 187

  • “Coming out,” 38

  • Compounds, 188

  • Cook, Captain, 5, 11

  • Cooking, 34, 111

  • Copra, 183, 185, 187

  • Costumes, ceremonial, 30

    • humour of, 173

    • queer, 49

  • Crab, van der, 6

  • Crocodiles, 15, 122

  • Cures effected, 45

  • Custom, another, 42

  • Dance costumes, 49, 52

    • description of festival, 51

    • dook-dook, 50

    • the fish, 49

    • the funeral, 128

    • for love-making, 54

    • the war, 129

  • Dances, 30, 49

    • native, 49

  • Dancing, 31

    • art of, 38

    • ground, the, 51

  • Dancing, skirt, 52

  • Davis, Rear-Admiral, 99

  • Death of a husband, 46

    • visit of, 46

  • Demits, 156

  • Dook-dook dance, 50

  • Douglas, Hon. John, 7

  • Draughtsmen, 131

  • Drawings on wood, 132

  • Droughts, 4

  • Drum-making, 38

  • Drums, 39, 51, 158

  • Drying ground, 186

  • Dubu, 54

    • dance for women, 54

    • house, an old, 66

  • Dutch, 5, 6

  • Dynamite fishing, 63, 117

  • Eade, Dick, 74

  • Ear-rings, grotesque, 106

  • Earth oven, 23

  • Earthenware jars, 23

  • Education, 13

  • Efaté, 153, 154, 167, 172

  • Effigies, 156, 157

  • Elevera, 17, 21, 24, 26, 27

  • Emigration scheme, 12

  • Enemies, 28

  • England, 12

  • Equal rights, 8

  • Erskine, Commodore, 4

  • Euro, 88

  • Evanena, 33

  • Evil spirits, 46, 160

    • wishing, fear of, 138

  • Expedition, hunting, head, 28

    • of Postillion, 6

    • of Trinton, 6

  • Explorers, 3

  • Faces, decorating of, 175

  • Faith, 168

  • Fanarita, 101

  • Feast, 29

  • Festival dance, description of, 51

  • Festivals, 30

  • Fiddle played by mouth, 131

  • Fiji, 10, 32

  • Fijians, 25

  • Fire, 19

    • producing of, 132

  • Fish, 62

  • Fishing, 26, 180

    • by bonito, 113

    • with dynamite, 63, 117

    • by kite, 116

    • by moonlight, 116

    • by nets, 62

    • by spears, 118

    • for turtles, 181

  • Florida Island, 102

  • Flowers, 104

  • Food, 23, 108

    • eating of certain, 40

  • France, 11, 12

  • “French Jack,” 11, 93

    • residents, 143

  • Fresh water, objection to, 151

  • Frigate bird, 57, 107

  • Funeral rites, 126

  • Funerals, 30

  • Furniture, 18