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Updated: May 29, 2025
Now observe that this gigantic, unmanageable-looking leaf, like everything else about the coconut tree, is almost a ready-made article, demanding no machinery to turn it to account, except the "koita" which hangs ever ready from the nude man's girdle.
Other animals have to do without it, as had man, I opine, in the stone and copper ages. With the iron age came a chopper, called in Western India a "koita," with which he can hack his way through most of the obstructions of life.
The New Guinea Koita give their hunting dogs decoctions of sago and other food into which are put pieces of odoriferous bark; these charms are said to have been got from the Papuans, the lowest race of the region. Among the Melanesians of New Guinea the hunting expert plays a great rôle his presence is necessary for the success of an expedition.
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