Motif
Continually maintained household fire
continually_maintained_household_fire
A motif of the Sacred Fire and Divine Light family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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andamanese
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The Andaman Islanders: A Study in Social Anthropology LIST OF FIGURES IN THE TEXT / INTRODUCTION / CHAPTER I / THE SOCIAL ORGANISATION; lines 1455-1545 confidence: medium
Huts face inward toward the dancing ground; the communal cooking place is generally near the bachelors’ hut, bachelors attend to cooking there, each family has a fireplace with a continually kept fire, and adjoining huts may form a common household.
Each family is said to have its own fireplace in its hut, with a fire kept continually alight.
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