. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . WAITOVA, NEAR LEVUKA. ot the women have plastered their hair with lime. r!iohi:t\iph by Miiii death at the hands of her family (generallyher son) to a life of dislionour and the riskof death at the hands of her husbandskinsfolk. In Fiji widow-strangling is consideredessential from the native point of view,for the following reason, described by theRev. Lorimer Fison. When he is dead he has to start on his way to spirit-land, and some distance from „... the starting place stands a Fijian
. Women of all nations, a record of their characteristics, habits, manners, customs and influence; . WAITOVA, NEAR LEVUKA. ot the women have plastered their hair with lime. r!iohi:t\iph by Miiii death at the hands of her family (generallyher son) to a life of dislionour and the riskof death at the hands of her husbandskinsfolk. In Fiji widow-strangling is consideredessential from the native point of view,for the following reason, described by theRev. Lorimer Fison. When he is dead he has to start on his way to spirit-land, and some distance from „... the starting place stands a Fijian , Justification tree by the wayside, and at for Widow. this tree he has to throw the Murder. whales tooth with which his kinsfolk have provided him. No matter how good his aim, he is sure to miss if his io8 WOMEN OF ALL NATIONS friends have not strangled a womanto follow and tend him. If he hits thetree, he smiles a smile of satisfaction andgoes on his way; if he misses, he pro-. CAP MADE OF SPIDERS WEB. (.Vo:^ Il the Exeter Museum.)For smothering widows in the New Hebrides [see p. 106)- ceeds a grumbling and discontented ghost. Heres a fine state of things ! DidntI always take care of my father ? Was Iever wanting in help to my friends ? Whythen have they not sent a woman afterme ? He has good reason for his discontent, forfurther on he has to pass a terrible guardianof the path, Nangga-nangga, who is utterly implacable towards bachelors, and whopersists in reckoning every man a bachelorwho comes to him without a femaleattendant. No excuse will serve, andthere is no possibilit} of slipping by un-noticed. The unfortunate man is seized, raisedaloft and broken in two by being dasheddown on a sharp - edged rock, but theghost who is properly attended is allowedto pass. This bachelor-hating guardian keeps asharp look-out on women also, and demandsa view of the marriage certificate, withwhich every woman who dies before herhusband is carefully provided. This cer-tif
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