Chapter VI Launching of a Canoe and Ceremonial Visiting—Tribal Economics in the Trobriands
of valuables.
Plate XXX Launching of a Canoe Nigada Bu’a, after its renovation, being pushed into the water. (See Div. I .)
Plate XXXI The Tasasoria on the Beach of Kaulukuba Stepping the masts and getting the sails ready for the run. In the foreground, To’uluwa, the chief of Kiriwina, standing at the mast, supervises the rigging of Nigada Bu’a. (See Div. I )
Plate XXXII A Chiefs Yam House in Kasana’i This illustrates the display of yams in the interstices between the logs of the well, and the decorations of cocoanuts, running round the gable, along the supports and the walls. This yam house was quite recently put up and its barge boards had not yet been erected. (See Div. IV .)
Plate XXXIII Filling a Yam House in Yalumugwa The yams are taken from the conical heaps and put into the bwayma (store houses) by the brother-in-law (wife’s brother) of the owner. Note the decorations on the gableûthe owner being a gumguya’u (chief of lower rank). See Div. IV .
