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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/-