Journal of Edwin H. Bryan, Jr. while with the Whitney Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History on the schooner France, February to October 1924
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Returned to Nasoto and had dinner at the Buli Bureta, Simon's, home. They are all good Catholics. Roll 78:2. Buli Bureta, his wife and children. (This is his 3rd wife. Two have died). Roll, 78;3. Athura, the Catholic missionary and child in front of the church. The Buli's wife presented me with pandanus basket. Left for Lavoni at 1:50. The trail crosses the Bureta River seven times between Bureta and Lovani, some of the fords being over knee deep. It traverses an area covered with grass land and weeds with scattered coconut palms. There are several large clumps of bamboo along the stream. The slopes above are wooded. Found Mr. and Mrs. Correia living with the missionary (Protestant in Lovoni) so arranged to spend the night there. Found several of the persons in the village could speak fair English. Interested them in the wants of the Museum and succeeded in purchasing the following valuable ethnological speci- mens:- Ethnological Specimens Purchased at Lovoni Price Shillings 1. Liku, meka dance skirt, used at the Jubilee Meles Made of voivoi (Pandanus caricosus) fringed at top of vau bark (Hibiscus tiliacens) 2/- 1. Stone hatchet and handle; handle of vau; fastening sinnet called magimagi (coconut fiber) 3/- 1. Rubu foifoi (little basket) made of voivoi (Pandanus) 1/- 1. Ai wau (war club) made of dowa 5/- 1. Iki (Samusamu - [tapa] beater) made of Cau 1/6 2. Tarla - war skirts, (worn when going out to fight) 1/6 (and photograph) 1. Small Iki 1/-