Kaidum with Mewun war clubs

As with so many recent changes, the Mewun incorporated the photographs into their own categories of tradition. Mewun, at a farewell feast, gave the small replica of a traditional war club to Joan Larcom and Ann Skinner-Jones. When the Chief presented it, he admonished that they should never use it for fighting. He noted that the club was now their kind of photograph, 'foto blong mifala', something to bring Mewun to their memory whenever they looked at it. Kaindum, who later moved to Port Vila where he became the Urban Chief for the Mewun, shows replicas of two different Mewun war clubs.

• Summer 1981

• Larcom, Joan

• Skinner-Jones, Ann

• Land and Custom Sustained and Revived

• Melanesia
• Oceania
• Pacific Islands
• South West Bay (Malakula, Vanuatu)
• Wintua (Malekula, Vanuatu)

• Clubs (weapons)
• Weapons

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

• Skinner-Jones, Ann

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2021-11-16