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Fire-walking ceremony on Beqa Island, Fiji
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Title:
Fire-walking ceremony on Beqa Island, Fiji
Caption:
Fire-walking ceremony on Beqa Island, Fiji. According to legend over 500 years ago the men of Beqa Island were given the gift of being able to walk on fire by an eel in exchange for its life. After a 19th century photgraph. From Customs of The World, published c.1913.
Credit:
Album / Universal Images Group / Universal History Archive
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Image size:
5136 x 3632 px | 53.4 MB
Print size:
43.5 x 30.8 cm | 17.1 x 12.1 in (300 dpi)
Keywords:
19 CENTURY • 19TH CENTURY • 19TH CENTURY. • 19TH • 19TH-CENTURY • BEQA • BEQUA • CENTURY • CEREMONIAL • CEREMONY • CULTURE • CULTURES • CUSTOM • CUSTOMS • ETHNIC • FIJI • FIJIAN • FIJIANS • FIRE • FIRE-WALKING • FLEET • GROUP • HOT • HUMANS • INDÍGENA • INDIGENAS • INDIGÈNE • INDIGENOUS PEOPLE • INDIGENOUS • ISLA • ISLAND • ISLANDS • MARINE • MELANESIA • NATIVE • NATIVES • NAVY • NINETEENTH CENTURY • NINETEENTH • OCEAN • OCEANS • PACIFIC • PEOPLE • PEOPLES • PRACTICE • RITUAL • SEA • SEA. • SEAS • SOUTH • STONES • TRADITION • TRADITIONAL • TRADITIONS • TRIBE • WALING • WALK • WALKER • WALKERS • WALKING • XIX CENTURY
