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Page 132
... wreaths of green leaves round their necks . Again , when Finow went to perform the ceremony of toogi at the grave of his father at Mafanga , the burial - place of the greatest Tonga chiefs from time immemo- rial , he and the several ...
... wreaths of green leaves round their necks . Again , when Finow went to perform the ceremony of toogi at the grave of his father at Mafanga , the burial - place of the greatest Tonga chiefs from time immemo- rial , he and the several ...
Page 139
... wreaths of reeds or possessed it , and at times showed it to a plaited rushes alone were allowed , " ex degree that ... wreath at her marriage - the myrtle wreath was probably of much later origin than the golden city — was , in the ...
... wreaths of reeds or possessed it , and at times showed it to a plaited rushes alone were allowed , " ex degree that ... wreath at her marriage - the myrtle wreath was probably of much later origin than the golden city — was , in the ...
Page 142
... wreath , upheld by Tryphon the physi- cian in Plutarch's " Symposium , " was lost sight of at Rome , and wreaths were appre- ciated solely as cheerful ornaments and symbols of festivity , and gave occasion to many a joke and game , such ...
... wreath , upheld by Tryphon the physi- cian in Plutarch's " Symposium , " was lost sight of at Rome , and wreaths were appre- ciated solely as cheerful ornaments and symbols of festivity , and gave occasion to many a joke and game , such ...
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