Tiqa (Fiji)

„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.