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Title
Young boy tending fire with skulls in background
Creator
Keesing, Roger M., 1935-1993
Date Created and/or Issued
between 1963 and 1989
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
Roger M. Keesing Collection
Rights Information
Under copyright
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.
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Rights Holder and Contact
Heirs of Roger M. Keesing
Description
This image published on page 171 of "Lightning Meets the West Wind" with caption: "Lamotalau's grandson tends the cooking of a sacrifical pig; the smoke of sacrifice rises in front of Lamotalau's skull. The feast was given to reward and honour 'Uguaboo for avending Lamotalau's death by killing a policeman."
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Roger M. Keesing Papers (MSS 427) - Roll 77, Item 12.
[Title, Date]. Roger Keesing Papers. MSS 427. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego. [Digital Object URL]
Type
image
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb3140946n
Subject
Shrines
Divination
Landscape
Kwaio (Solomon Islands people)
Boys
Ancestor worship
Oceania
Pacific Islands
Solomon Islands
Malaita (Solomon Islands)
Melanesia
Place
Oceania
Pacific Islands
Solomon Islands
Malaita (Solomon Islands)
Melanesia

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