Men standing under raised house at feast
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- Created Date
- between 1963 and 1989
- Description
These houses are built ostenstibly to hold taboo portions of pork such as the heads, to protect them from those who might defile them. The houses are used for this, but also for show. Man on far left is Folofo'u.
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Roger M. Keesing Papers (MSS 427) - Roll 8, Item 6.
[Title, Date]. Roger Keesing Papers. MSS 427. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]
- Creator
Keesing, Roger M., 1935-1993
- Partner
- California Digital Library
- Contributing Institution
- UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
- Collection
- Roger M. Keesing Collection
- Subjects
- Men
Kwaio (Solomon Islands people)
Dwellings
Mortuary feasts
String bags
Shell money
Oceania
Melanesia
Pacific Islands
Malaita (Solomon Islands)
Solomon Islands - Type
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- Rights
- Under copyright
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- Keesing, Roger M., 1935-1993. Men standing under raised house at feast. between 1963 and 1989. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb1297921m. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
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- Keesing, Roger M., 1935-1993, (between 1963 and 1989) Men standing under raised house at feast. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb1297921m
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- Keesing, Roger M., 1935-1993. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb1297921m>.