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CHAPTER XVI.

ARTS OF LIFE.

Outrigger canoes; plank-built canoes; voyages; trade. Houses: dwelling houses; canoe houses; pile-houses houses built on stilts over water or land; tree-houses; forts; stone buildings. Agriculture and crops. Weapons. Fighting. Bows; slings; poisoned arrows. Shell and stone implements; pottery; stone-boiling a method of cooking where stones heated in a fire are placed into a vessel of water or food to boil it. Fishing: hooks; floats; nets; kites; traps. Food; Cookery. Native cloth; Dress. Money: mat-money a form of currency made from woven mats; feather-money; shell-money; money-lending. Decorative Arts, in the Solomon Islands, Santa Cruz, and the Banks Islands . 290–331

CHAPTER XVII.

DANCES. MUSIC. GAMES.

Dances. Songs. Drums; pipes; stringed instruments; Aeolian flute a wind-powered flute or bamboo tube that makes sound when the wind blows through it. Games. Toys: kites; bull-roarer a wooden slat swung on a string to create a roaring sound, often used in rituals; rattles . . . . 332–342

CHAPTER XVIII.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Cannibalism. Head-taking headhunting. Castaways shipwrecked survivors. Slaves. Burning alive. Sun; moon; stars; eclipses. Months and Seasons. Narcotics. Counting; Measures. Salutations. Wild men . . . . 343–355

CHAPTER XIX.

STORIES.

I. Animal Stories.—1. The Heron and the Turtle. 2. The Three Fish. 3. The Rat and the Rail a type of bird. 4. The Birds' Voyage. 5. The Shark and the Snake. 6. The Hen and Chickens.
II. Myths, Tales of Origins.—1. Kamakajaku. 2. Samuku. 3. The Mim. 4. Mueasarava. 5. Tagaro's Departure. 6. How Tagaro made the Sea. 7. How Tagaro found Fish. 8. How the old Woman made the Sea.
III. Wonder Tales.—1. Dilingavuv. 2. Story of an Eel. 3. Molgon and Molwor. 4. The Ghost-wife. 5. Ganviviris. 6. The Little Orphan. 7. The Woman and the Eel. 8. The Little Owl. 9. The Winged Wife. 10. Taso. 11. Betawerai. 12. Basi and Dovaowari. 13. Deitari. 14. Tarkeke. 15. The Woman and the Ghost. 16. Tagaro the Little. 17. Merambuto and Tagaro Tagaro is a prominent creator god or culture hero in Melanesian mythology . . . . 356–411