Young priest addresses his ancestors in the shrine before throwing them a token valuable.

This image and caption published in Kwaio Religion (Columbia Univ. Press, 1982), page 131. Laete'eboo, main priest of Kwailala'e, talking to ancestors with small string of kofu shell money. This will be "ficticiously" referred to as a fa'afa'a, the name of a large shell valuable.

• 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 3, Item 9.

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

• Kwaio (Solomon Islands people)
• Men

• image

Online finding aid

• Roger M. Keesing Papers

• Heirs of Roger M. Keesing

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2021-11-15