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TY THE NIMANGKI socnzry 303
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P. is appointed when they are to be erected and the amzl nitemes
4 built. That time having come, the images are carried out of
, the club-house into the dancing ground and set up side by side
a little distance in front of the nonggob and apart from each
' other. A horizontal pole (naai tewhmg) is ï¬Åxed into position
l so that its ends rest upon the tops of the temes, and two shorter
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,.‘.;.-.3 i. Diagrammatic sketch of the Am: Nitemes set up at entrance to the
Nimavgki grade Navalvel.
‘ = the tsmcsu .
= mm iawlang.
= the 51JOfl:, black posts.
= the thatched moi’.
= the nnwm mbatia. ‘
Z a malandr bush.
= the stones forming the nanggab.
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vertical POLES are planted behind the nomggob, each one
immediately behind one of the flames. A roof of thatching palm
(nouriet) is now made and placed in such a way that it rests
upon the mmi tewlang in front and upon the two short posts at
. the back. The resultant effect is as of a rude shelter covering
the malandr and its encircling -mmggab. This is the “ house
' of the iemesâ€ù. (v. Fig. r6.)1
I Layard states that at entrance to this grade “an image made oi mbmp
wood, carved to represent a human ï¬Ågure, painted red, white, and black, is
erected in another village. A pent roof is erected over it as also over the stone