Speech Surrogates

Summary

System of the Ninde-speaking Mewun people of the South West Bay of Malekula in Vanuatu, mentioned by Clayton (1980) as a now-defunct signaling system of drummed “bullroarer-style pottery cylinders” (80) likely similar to the Mewun slit-log drumming system.

Bibliography

Larcom, J. C. (1981). Place and the politics of marriage: The Mewun of Malekula, New Hebrides/Vanuaaku.

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