Chapter VI Launching of a Canoe and Ceremonial Visiting—Tribal Economics in the Trobriands
them, and thus creating wealth.
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 .)
Plate XXXV Communal Cooking of Mona (Taro Dumplings) Large clay-pots , imported from the Amphletts, are used for the purpose; in these, coco-nut oil is brought to a boil, pieces of pounded taro being thrown in afterwards, while a man stirs the contents with a long, decorated, wooden ladle.
