Building a gwelagwela platform for a mortuary feast

Description:: The coconuts are bespelled as part of the magic performed for the feast, as are the cordyline leaves. The structure in the background of some of these pictures is for the pigs to be tethered out for the feast. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) This digital image is a surrogate of an ite... Pacific IslandsOceaniaMelanesiaMalaita (Solomon Islands)Solomon Islands
Display date:: between 1963 and 1989
Location:: Solomon Islands
Format:: image
Collections:: Digital Public Library of America
Contributors:: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Content partner:: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
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