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Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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a nearly equal degree, fishermen. In the larger islandsthere is usually a sharp distinction between the coast people, whoare mainly fishers, and the inlanders, who are agriculturists;the latter are always by far the more primitive, and in many casesare practically the serfs of the former. The plantations, in which THE PAPUASIANS 123 both sexes work, are very well tended ; irrigation is practised, andin places aqueducts are constructed (New Caledonia, New Guinea).Fish are almost everywhere captured by hooks (Hg. o rt-c), spears,and traps : but two devices are ^vorthy of special mention. In NewGuinea the bait is sometimes suspended from a kite, so that it tripsalong the surface of the water ; in Torres Straits the natives, whenfishing for turtle, attach a line to the tail of a remora or sucker-fish,which finds and attaches itself to a turtle, thus acting as a guideto the fisherman. Hunting is not much practised except in NewGuinea, owing to the paucity of game ; here the game is driven
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Fi(i 101.—Working-adze with jade blade. New Caledonia. into nets. Cooking is performed by heated stones or locally inl)ots or shells, fire being procured by friction, usually l)y rubbinga stick along a groove. A mild intoxicant is prepared from the2)iper mcfJiifsficuni in Fiji, New Hebrides, and Banks Islands, l)utthe i^ractice has undoubtedly been introduced from Polynesia. Betelchewing is found as far east as Santa Cruz (fig. 100). Cannibalismoccurs sporadically in all the groups except the Banks Islands andSanta Cru/ (fig. 2); the victims are almost invariably foemen killedin battle. Canoes are found everywhere; even the Tasmaniansconstructed canof-shaped rafts of Ijark. The commonest craft isthe dug-oul with single outrigger, which is Connd almost every- 124 OCEANIA

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