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Photograph by J. \V. Reattie 



THIv SOLOMON ISLANDS METHOD OF "LAYING A GHOST" 



The natives fear ghosts. If a chief has been powerful in life, it is believed his ghost 

 will be powerful after his death. A shrine is made containing relics — the skull of the chief 

 or his cremated body — and gifts of food are placed on near-by stones. It is taboo to pass 

 behind the shrine. 



