Ru'uboo performs an extraction cure, spitting on the back of the patient and withdrawing an invasive object, usually that a sorcerer has shot into the patient.

• between 1963 and 1989

• Keesing, Roger M., 1935-1993

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Roger M. Keesing Papers (MSS 427) - Roll 78, Item 31.

• Malaita (Solomon Islands)
• Melanesia
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands
• Solomon Islands

• Jewelry
• Kwaio (Solomon Islands people)
• Men
• Smoking
• Traditional medicine

• image

Online finding aid

• Roger M. Keesing Papers

• Heirs of Roger M. Keesing

[Title, Date]. Roger Keesing Papers. MSS 427. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]

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2021-11-15