SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany Review of Learning
During a traditional sakau ceremony in Pohnpei...
- Do you enter the front or back of a nahs when you walk in?
- Can you "hang" your legs over the edge of the nahs during a formal sakau ceremony?
- Who sits down by the sakau stone?
- Who sits up on the platforms?
- What shape are the platforms? Always?
- When sakau (Piper methysticum) is brought into the nahs
- Only the roots are brought in
- The roots and two to four stalks are brought in
- The whole plant with all of its stalks are brought in
- The sakau is prepared by
- Boiling the root stock
- Chewing the root stock
- Pounding the root stock
- Uhming the root stock
- One the sakau is prepared, the preparers play a "tune" (on the sakau stone in order to:
- Call the guests to the ceremony
- Call the king (nahnmwarki)
- Call the sakau wrap to the stone
- No reason, just a happy thing to do
- The squeezing is done using
- coconut fibers
- the inner bark of the hibiscus tree
- the outer bark of the hibiscus tree
- Sakau is used in which of the following ceremonies?
- Apology
- Asking a father for his daughter
- Festival (komadipw)
- Presentation of first fruits to the king (nahnmwarki)
- First year birthday party for a baby
- Funeral
- The people in front of nahnmwarki and nahnken serve the nahnmwarki and nahnken. Which of the following are their roles in the ceremony?
- defense of the leader
- drinking sakau
- master of ceremonies
- pounding sakau
- Protection against magic in the sakau
- squeezing sakau
- Under what conditions would the server drink the sakau?
- At what point can the "business" of the gathering be announced and the agenda begun?
- In Sokehs, how many cups must be served before anyone can speak?
- Who gets the first cup?
- Who gets the second cup?
- The third cup went to a woman from Kosrae because...
- The third cup always goes to a woman of Kosraen descent
- The man who sat in the position of the highest title is married to a Kosraen
- Pohnpeian legend is that sakau comes from Kosrae
- In a hypothetical sakau ceremony including the king of Kosrae (togusrai) and the kings of Pohnpei (nahnmwarkis), the togusrai would get the first cup.
- Who gets the third cup in Sokeh's?
- Who gets the fourth cup?
- Do all of the municipalities use the same number of special "cups"?
- After the "special" cups...
- Everyone goes home
- Everyone goes to eat
- Everyone goes to sleep
- The purpose of the ceremony is announced
- Sakau makes most people sleepy, but maybe one in fifty become __________________.
- After the special cups, does the cup come to you or do you go to the cup to drink?
- On Pohnpei, Piper methysticum is a...
- food plant
- house plant
- mystical plant
- power plant
- sacred plant
- weed plant
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- What was your reaction to the sakau ceremony?
- Should ethnobotany classes in future terms attend a sakau ceremony?
Why?