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Title: Scenes from every land, second series; a collection of 250 illustracions picturing the people, natural phenomena, and animal life in all parts of the world. With one map and a bibliography of gazetteers, atlases, and books descriptive of foreign countries and natural history
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Grosvenor, Gilbert Hovey, 1875-1966 National Geographic Society (U.S.)
Subjects: Views Physical anthropology
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National geographic society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ows. This is done by scraping the head with a splinter of shell fromthe giant clam (Tridacna). It is indeed a bloody operation. The Papuans do not believe inthe occurrence of natural death, and it is quite impossible to tell who will be blamed by themfor the causing of death by evil influences. Raids and bloodshed often arise from such causes,and many strange practices are used to discover the guilty party. In many localities thebody of the deceased is slowly dried over a fire and the drippings are saved. These must hetasted by any stranger coming to the house, and should vomiting ensue, the party is consideredguilty, as the cause of death. In other places this liquor is partaken of by the widow of thedead man as an evidence of her fidelity to him. After desiccation has taken place the bodyis generally bent to a sitting posture and, after it has been wrapped in a mat, is hung up amongthe rafters of the house.— Photo by Thomas Barbour, Harvard Uniirritiln. (26) SCENES FROM EVERY LAND
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BRINGING OUT THE MUMMY FROM ■IHK ■HAMAI/NEW HEBRIDESIt appeared to be the stuffed skin of a man fastened on poles that ran through the legsand out at the shoulders. The fingers of the hands dangled loose like empty gloves. Thehair was still on the head, and the face was represented by a rather cleverly modeled maskmade of vegetable fiber, glued together with bread-fruit juice. In the eye-sockets the artisthad placed neat little circular coils of cocoanut leaf, and imitation bracelets were painted onthe arms. The face and a good part of the body were colored bright red. The ends of thestretcher-poles were carved into a curious likeness of turtle heads. Standing up there in thedancing light and shade of the trees, against the high, brown wall of the hamal, the creaturelooked extraordinarily weird and goblin-like. It had a phantom grin on its face, and its loose,skinny fingers moved in the current of the strong trade wind — it certainly looked more thanhalf alive. - Photo from Beat

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