Report of the New Guinea nutrition survey expedition, 1947 / [edited by E.H. Hipsley and F.W. Clements].

  • Australia. Department of External Territories
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[1947?]
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Credit: Report of the New Guinea nutrition survey expedition, 1947 / [edited by E.H. Hipsley and F.W. Clements]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE XX.—KAVATARIA—LIVING OFFSPRING PER MARRIED WOMAN (20th October, 1947). Offspring. Age. A eS ji bo isu) a OU 16—20 21—25 26—30 31—35 36—40 41—45 46—50. 50 plus Widows — Hs bob Te eH OWwWonW Fb oom ee DO OOS bo = Oo = bo A = 5 roo a4 fe) ry jo bo =r bo: — tf] — TaBLE XXJI.—PARTICULARS OF CENSUS FROM 1945 TO 1947. ee \ Natural Births per Deaths per | . 4 Year. Popula Birth | Deaths.| thousand thousand, { U°reawe’ P= tron: er annum er annum thousand P ~|? * | per annum. 1945 ae coal Seow 1947 ake csah OOL 19 10 32°64. 17-18 15°46 Records of the population of the Trobriand Islands are available: from 1919 onwards with the exception of those lost during the war years (*), (?), €°). The figures are conflicting and do not enable a conclusion to be drawn on the trend of the population since 1919. Economic Organisation. Kavataria, in common with other Trobriand villages, appears to be-a long- established and. stable settlement, and,.to a degree, contrasts, in this respect, with villages in other areas visited by the Nutrition Survey Party. The population of Kavataria is mainly composed of men who have inherited a right to a house-site in the village and a right to garden on village lands and fish in village waters, together with their wives and children. In some cases, where the wife comes from another village, a man’s children will not have any hereditary right to remain in Kavataria, but will be expected to become members of the mother’s village. Conversely, where Kavataria women are married and living elsewhere, their children will be expected to return to Kavataria in due course. In actual fact, the great majority of married women at present in Kavataria were born there and are by right of birth members of Kavataria families. There are only 14 married women in the village who have come from other parts of the Trobriands.
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