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Usituma!: song of heaven
Oceania • 15 • Published In 1945 • Pages: 201-238
By: Baldwin, B..
Abstract
Native song texts make up most of this article. The following themes are treated in these songs: religion and afterlife; wealth and chieftainship; dancing, courtship and love; canoes and voyaging; fighting, death and exile. Copious notes supplement the texts. Baldwin, a missionary, had six years' field experience in the Trobriands at the time the article was published.
- HRAF PubDate
- 1995
- Region
- Oceania
- Sub Region
- Melanesia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Missionary
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Arthur Fields
- Field Date
- 1939-1945
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- Papua New Guinea
- Notes
- [by] B. Baldwin
- LCSH
- Trobriand Islanders