Chapter XXIX — yankona (Kava) - The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom

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Chapter XXIX — yankona (Kava) - The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom

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Yankona (Yaqona) the Kava or Ava of the Polynesians, is an infusion of the. root of the pepper plant (Piper methysticum), which is indigenous in Fiji. Throughout Polynesia it occupies the place which coffee takes among the Arabs, that is to say, it is used on occasions of ceremony and in the entertainment of strangers, and its preparation, even...

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1968

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Basil Thomson

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