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THE NIMANGKI SOCIETY 305 stone's child"), and a hunch of malamir leaves. These last he puts through the armlet and bracelet and wraps round the stone. When this is done, the introducer’s assistant comes iorward and takes all these objects from the introducer. The gongs strike up the rhythm lemilend, and the candidate and assistant perform the dance of this name around them. When they have ï¬Ånished the candidate takes a conch and he and the assistant go up to the amel nitemes. Here the former places his arm against one of the temes; the assistant strikes it with the neuiitï¬Ån newt, and invests him with the annlet and bracelet, When these ornaments have been put on, the candidate gives his conch to the other man, who blows on it, indicating thus that the candidate is about to give a pig. This the latter fetches, and while the assistant pronounces the correct formula the animal is presented to the introducer as payment for the tilevzzr and turtle—shel.l armlet. The dancing of nitem then begins afresh, and the visitors continue it throughout the night. Sometime after dark, torches (nuhul) are made from bundles of wild cane decorated with leaves of malandr and mbwingmbwingamb. A senior now comes forward, lights one of these torches, and begins to perform lmdlimd as a solo round the gongs. Presently he stops dancing and calls for a pig, which the candidate leads up and presents to his introducer “ for the fastening of the mulandr to the torch " (wimbimg nin nuhul), the senior repeating the formula as usual. He then hands the torch to the candidate, who in his turn begins to dance lemilemi, holding the torch aloft. While this is still going on, or perhaps when the torch dance is finished, the cry "Li'tamate—z-ei! â€ù is heard thrice from behind the men's club-house. It is the voice of an old man of very high Nimangki rank—oi Nevet Nambar, or higher. He is painted white with lime from top to toe, and on his head he wears a large number of spider's web head-dresses (nekambat), the prerogative of high rank. As soon as his calling is heard all the men on the dancing GROUND take conches and blow them, producing a curious bubbling sound} The intoning of “ litumate â€ù and the answering calls 1 This is like the bubbling Sfllflld made by the ismes '/lfllzfflggfll of the Nnlnu/an during the Lilamat: (ICES of that association. The couches of the Nimiwgni used in this Context are "itiiietieiieiiy identical" with the isms: flllaiflggol, replying to the invocation of Lhe old than in eimtiy the same way as the t:m¢S nanfnggal replied. (See below.);A. B. D. X
