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Chapter VI Launching of a Canoe and Ceremonial Visiting—Tribal Economics in the Trobriands

life are scarce, there is obviously no possibility of accumulating them, and thus creating wealth.

Display of Pigs and Yams at a Distribution (Sagali)
Plate XXXIV Display of Pigs and Yams at a Distribution (Sagali) All food to be given away is several times displayed before, during, and after the ceremony. Exhibiting of food in large, prismatic receptacles ( pwata’i ) is one of the typical features of Trobriand custom. (See Div. IV .)
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