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
XXIV	Display of pigs and yams at a distribution (sagali)	170
XXXV	Communal cooking of mona (taro dumplings)	170
XXXVI	Scene in the wasi (ceremonial exchange of vegetables for fish)	171
XXXVII	Vava, direct barter of vegetables for fish	171
XXXVIII	Koutau’ya, one of the chiefs of Sinaketa	196
XXXIX	A loaded canoe	197
XL	A waga sailing on a Kula expedition	224
XLI	The rigging of a canoe	225
XLII	Scenery in the Amphletts	268
XLIII	Landing in the main village of Gumasila	269
XLIV	Technology of pot-making (I)	284
XLV	Technology of pot-making (II)	285
XLVI	Fine specimens of Amphlett pots	288
XLVII	A canoe in Gumasila loading pots	289
XLVIII	A Kula fleet halting to perform the final rites of mwasila	334
XLIX	The beauty magic of the mwasila	335
L (A)	Working the kaloma shell (I)	370
L (B)	working the kaloma shell (II)	371
LI	Working the kaloma shell (III)	372
LII	Working the kaloma shell (IV)	373
LIII	On the beach of Nabwageta	376
LIV	The Dobuan canoes pulled up on Sinaketa beach	388
LV	Some canoes moored on the shallow lagoon near the shore	388
LVI	Dobuan visitors in Sinaketa	389
LVII	A magical spell associated with pregnancy	406
LVIII	A rite of war magic	406
LIX	A rite of garden magic	407
LX	Armshells brought from Kitava	470
LXI	Bringing in a soulava	471
LXII	Offering the soulava	471
LXIII	Ceremonial destruction during a so’i feast	486
LXIV	Nagega canoe	496
LXV	A corpse covered with valuables	512

Maps

I	Eastern New Guinea	xxxiii
II	Racial distribution in Eastern New Guinea	26
III	The Kula district	30
IV	The Trobriand archipelago	50
V	The Kula ring	82

Tables

I	Chronological list of Kula events witnessed by the writer	16
II	Time-table of the uvalaku expedition, Dobu to Sinaketa, 1918	381
III	Table of Kula magic and of the corresponding activities	415–418

Figures in text

I	Diagram of canoe stability and construction							109
II	Diagrammatic sections of canoes							111

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.