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THIS book is very well written, in simple vivid language, and the author is at his best in the descriptions of particular customs, ceremonies, and beliefs. The chapters on sexual life, betrothal, and marriage; the accounts of fishing and gardening, of feasts and dancing, of warfare and magic, are one and all excellent. The description of bonito fishing, so characteristic of the Southern Solomons, is of outstanding literary merit, and scientific interest.
Melanesians of the South-east Solomon Islands.
By Dr. W. G. Ivens. Pp. xix + 529 + 15 plates. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1927.) 30s. net.
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Melanesians of the South-east Solomon Islands . Nature 120, 327 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120327b0
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