Sacred Food - Ethnology of Tokelau Islands

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Sacred Food - Ethnology of Tokelau Islands

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Victoria University of Wellington

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Whenever sacred fish (ika sa)—whale (tafola), swordfish (sakula), and turtle (fonu)—were caught they were brought to the village malae for ceremonial prayers of thanks and distribution among all the villagers. Anyone page 152 who kept a sacred fish for his own household alone was punished by having his house burned and his property and canoe bro...

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Book

Date created

1937

Creator

Gordon Macgregor

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https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/webarchive/20201108000000/https://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scho...

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