Note 48 — Chapter I · TABOOED DAYS AT CRITICAL EPOCHS
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L. Fison, “The nanga, or Sacred Stone Enclosure, of Wainimala, Fiji,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 1885, xiv, 18. The solemn rite of initiation into the nanga was always celebrated at the time of the New Year’s festival, late in October or early in November. This Fijian festival, called solevu ni vilavou, corresponded to the Tahitian and Hawaiian makahiki (A. B. Joske, “The nanga of Viti Levu,” Internationales Archiv für Ethnographie, 1889, ii, 259). On the nanga see further H. Webster, “Totem Clans and Secret Associations in Australia and Melanesia,” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1911, xli, 506 sq.