Conversations with ancestors.

A client, left, asks his ancestors why they are making his children sick; the diviner looks for the answer in a handful of lime. 19 May 1964. Haliona on left is the client, Ri'ibala, holding lime, is the diviner. Ri'ibala is probably from southern Kwaio, where this kind of divination is said to have originated and is more common.

• May 1964

• Keesing, Roger M., 1935-1993

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Roger M. Keesing Papers (MSS 427) - Roll 21, Item 36.

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

• Divination
• Kwaio (Solomon Islands people)
• Men
• String bags

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