Enciclopedia Cattolica

Plate III · Oceania

Vol. IX (1952) · full-page plate
Above: NATIVES GOING TO MASS, in a wooden chapel built in the bush - Village of the Solomon Islands. Below: DWELLINGS OF THE NASIOI, built on platforms to defend themselves from wild beasts. The plant surrounded by a trellis, on the right, marks the place of cremation of a corpse, which will be cut down at the end of the funeral rites, after years - Solomon Islands.
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Plate III
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Above: NATIVES GOING TO MASS, in a wooden chapel built in the bush - Village of the Solomon Islands. Below: DWELLINGS OF THE NASIOI, built on platforms to defend themselves from wild beasts. The plant surrounded by a trellis, on the right, marks the place of cremation of a corpse, which will be cut down at the end of the funeral rites, after years - Solomon Islands.

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