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Latitude
-2.558725
Longitude
147.2815
Start Date
2011-05-21
End Date
2011-05-21

Description

A legend about how coconuts were introduced to Baluan. A father and son go out fishing, but a masalai (evil spirit) smells their fish and chases them. When they have fed all their fish to the masalai and are still being chased, the father tells his son to kill him and feed him to the masalai, but to take his head home with him. The son eventually does this and escapes with his life. He buries his father's head near the house. Later a coconut tree starts growing on the grave. If one looks at a coconut nowadays, it looks like a human head

Sources

ID
tc2de3
Source
https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/DS1/NP210511_1

Extended Data

ID
DS1-NP210511_1
Languages
Baluan-Pam - blq
Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
Publisher
Dineke Schokkin
Contact
admin@paradisec.org.au
License
Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)
Rights
Open (subject to agreeing to PDSC access conditions)