Nevinbong's kitchen with tiger shark teeth

Some of the villagers now receive remittances from members who have moved into governmental positions vacated by Europeans in the nation's capital. A few houses of more permanent materials, concrete ad galvanized iron, have been introduced to Mewun villagers.These homes may be equipped with kerosene refrigerators and water-catching tanks. Because houses are symbols of membership, Mewun emigrant families living elsewhere continue to assert their ties to Mewun through unoccupied homes that hold their place in rural villages or homes where their relatives reside.

Hanging along with the kitchen tools is the jaw of a 10 foot long tiger shark who threatened reef fishing for years until locals caught it with a fishing net.

• Summer 1981

• Larcom, Joan

• Skinner-Jones, Ann

• Home Interiors
• Wealth Indicators

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

• Houses
• Interior decoration
• Kitchens

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

• Skinner-Jones, Ann

Under copyright (US)

Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.

Constraint(s) on Use: This work is protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" requires written permission of the copyright holder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UC San Diego Library. Inquiries can be made to the UC San Diego Library program having custody of the work.

UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)

2021-11-16