black & white photographs taken by Ursula Graham Bower between 1937 and 1946 | |
caption: | Heramui ceremony, Hangrum village |
medium: | photographs |
keywords: | ritual |
location: | Hangrum |
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Caption:Offerings are set out on the hazoa replica near a village gate. The separate portions for the fourteen major spirits are set out on banana leaf plates. The white substance is rice flour. [Shortly after a fowl is sacrificed by the senior priest.] |
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Caption:Further food is offered at each individual plate. |
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Caption:Cups and plates including that of Tsiuperai on right, the principal spirit invoked, and the cock sacrificed to him. The cups are of quite a different pattern to those used by human beings, and Tsiuperai's is particularly elaborate. |
seealso: | Betts, Village Organisation, p.24,115 |