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Solomon Islands Culture and traditions Solomon Islands

Area : 10985  sq.mi - Population 509190 hab.
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Culture and traditions Solomon Islands

 Traditions and customs

The Solomon Islands' handicraft has a very good reputation, as well as the music played on bamboo flutes. Despite the inhabitants' mass conversion to Christianity, worshipping of ancestors is still widely practised in villages. According to ancestral beliefs, the deceased's soul is re-incarnated in birds, reptiles or sharks, becoming therefore sacred and taboo as far as consumption is concerned. Make sure not to go break taboos and proscriptions still in place in some villages, in particular by avoiding wearing clothing that is too revealing.

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