Sly moves
a semiotic analysis of movement in Marshallese culture
pp. 139-151
in: John Deely, Margot D. Lenhart (eds), Semiotics 1981, Berlin, Springer, 1983Abstract
One time, during the days when Etao was a young boy, there was an object which was a play thing of his. The boy, Etao, took the play thing and gave it to his mother to watch, then he ran off to bathe in the sea. Etao's mother took the toy and placed it under her arm so she would not lose it. Soon though, the toy became uncomfortable, so the mother of Etao took the play object and placed it behind the joint in her knee. It was not fitted to her knee either. Finally, the mother took the play thing (which was in the shape of a vagina) and placed it between her legs. The object fit so well in this location that she could not remove it.