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The Solomon Islands and Their Natives
Henry Brougham Guppy
A naturalist stationed in the western Pacific set down everything he saw across the Solomon chain: the coral islands themselves, the villages, the customs, the tools and canoes. Guppy writes with a scientist's eye for detail, from burial practices to garden cultivation and local government. Part geography, part field notebook, it preserves an archipelago as one careful observer found it.
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69 chapters
- 1THE SOLOMON ISLANDS AND Their Natives.
- 2PREFACE.
- 3INTRODUCTION.
- 4CONTENTS.
- 5CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY.
- 6CHAPTER II. GOVERNMENT—HEAD-HUNTING—SLAVERY—CANNIBALISM.
- 7CHAPTER III. THE FEMALE SEX—POLYGAMY—MODES OF BURIAL, ETC.
- 8CHAPTER IV. DWELLINGS—TAMBU-HOUSES—WEAPONS—TOOLS.
- 9CHAPTER V. CULTIVATION—FOOD, ETC.
- 10CHAPTER VI. THE PHYSICAL CHARACTERS AND RACE-AFFINITIES OF THESE ISLANDERS.[80]
- 11STATURE.
- 12CHEST-GIRTH.
- 13WEIGHT OF BODY.[94]
- 14LENGTH OF LIMBS.
- 15The Features.
- 16The Hair, Colour of Skin, Powers of Vision, c.
- 17CHAPTER VII. DRESS—TATTOOING—SONGS, ETC.
- 18CHAPTER VIII. CANOES—FISHING—HUNTING.
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