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... Since the resources needed to fashion axes were limited, the grassland people would exchange their girls and big pigs for axes (Strathern and Stewart p. ...
Although Ongka considered axes more valuable than shells or pigs, they too played an important role in gift exchange (moka) and bride-wealth. ... In the film Ongka’s Big Moka, Ongka states that a man who does not have pigs is a “rubbish man”, without pigs, a man has nothing. ... In the film Ongka’s Big Moka, we are able to see that he has adopted the clothing of the white man, while still maintaining traditional dress for ceremonial purposes. He includes trucks, a motorbike, cows and Australian money (which replaced the cowrie shells) in his moka ceremony, along with the traditional pigs.
As a Big Man, Ongka does not carry the power that he may have had as part of the police system. ... However, in the end Ongka is able to carry out the moka for the assembly member, Perua.
Approximate Word count = 1451
Approximate Pages = 5.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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