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Tiqa (Fiji)

Tiqa (Fiji)

  • Name of sport (game): Tiqa, Tinga [i-tiqa]
  • Place of practice (continent, state, nation):

    Fiji

  • Description:

     

    tiqa

    „The annual game played at the sprouting of the yams. The reeds used have hard wood heads, called ulutoa,* a relic of ancient phallic worship."

    [*a name deriving from ulu, meaning head, and toa, an archaic word for Casuarina, today nokonoko, a very hard wood] For further discussion of this game of veitiqa, see Ewins, Rod. 2010. "The perils of ethnographic provenance; the documentation of the Johnson Fiji collection in the South Australian Museum (Chapter 3)". In Hunting the collectors; Pacific collections in Australian museums, art galleries and archives (Revised and reprinted), ed. Cochrane, Susan and Max Quanchi. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 31-65
    Source of photo: Ethnographic photos from „The Hill Tribes of Fiji” by A.B.Brewster, 1922, London, Seeley, Service & Co., Ltd.

  • Sources of information :

    The information contained in the article comes from the following sources:
    http://www.justpacific.com/fiji/fijiphotos/books/hilltribes/index.html

    Source of photos used in this article and gallery:
    http://www.justpacific.com/fiji/fijiphotos/books/hilltribes/index.html

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