Tobian Word of the Week

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bahuh: dance
Maorakawe hebahuh bong.
The men danced all night.

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Document of the Week
From The Chinese Repository—a new
account of Holden and Nute's stay on Tobi

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FOTIgraph of the Week:

Tobi men dancing
Photograph from the Thilenius Expedition,
1908-1910. Photograph of this plate
with kind permission of the ethnographic
collection, Tübingen University.

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