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Notes sur les Moeurs et Coutumes des Fujuges, specialement des Tribus d'Alo et Sivu
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Notes sur les Moeurs et Coutumes des Fujuges, specialement des Tribus d'Alo et Sivu

  • AU PMB MS 6
  • Collection
  • Notes completed in 1937

Father Paul Fastre, M.S.C. (born 1880), was a member of the Roman Catholic Mission in Western Papua, whose headquarters are at Yule Island. His notes were completed in 1937.

Notes on the customs of the Fujuges (English Fuyuges) people of the Mt. Scratchley-Chirima River area of the Central and Northern Districts of Papua New Guinea. Principally:

  • Ceremonies, dances and songs, including the major ceremony, Le Gabe;
  • Warfare;
  • Chiefs (Utumi);
  • Engagement and marriage;
  • Conception and childbirth;
  • Naming;
  • Nose-piercing;
  • Illness;
  • Funerals and mourning;
  • Treatment of murderers;
  • Beliefs and cults;
  • Magic;
  • Legends;
  • Property; and
  • Fishing, hunting and agriculture.

Fastre, Paul