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_ THE NIMANGKI SOCIETY 335
are probably the same as those at entrance to Neveluel. First
the introducer and candidate set up the stone circle (nonggnb)
and plant the malamir bush inside it ; then there follows, we may
presume (though no mention is made of it), the rite of “ opening
the door â€ù 1; after this the upright post is cut and perhaps
carved, and, an interval of a iew days having elapsed, is set
up beside the malandr bush inside the mmggob. Over all the
amel ewon is built. Aisumjmdew is then sounded and during
the following day and night the rites of entrance are performed
in their usual manner and sequence. On the morning of the
second day the candidate receives his new title oi Mbalias. Among
the objects for which pigs are paid during the ceremonies there
are the pig's tusk bracelet, the turtle-shell armlet (namba), and
the hawk's feather, and the mlmbinlzen, that is, the upright post.
The candidate also gives pigs for those sacred objects the ï¬Ållet
netel mulmmm and the handolier mban m21ve;I2 which corne from
Lambumbu. The latter is worn passing round the back of the
neck, across the chest, and fastening at the hack again; the
former is tied round the head as at entrance to N evelvel. It seems
too that on entering N aamel Ewan the candidate purchases and
wears for the ï¬Årst time the spider's web head-dress, which is the
badge for all grades above Nevelvel.’
N amu
Namu is the highest grade of which we know anything, and
according to one informant it is the highest of all Nimangki ranks.
Although no one has become a member of it for many years,
this same informant once witnessed the entrance rites, and was
able to give some account of them. _
1 ct, Layard, 1928, P. 170.
I Layard states that although nothing was said of it in the account which
was given to him, he understood that a monolith is erected at entrance to Nuamel
Ewan, and he gives a photograph oi such a stone. It is curious too that Deacon
makes no mention oi any monolith connected with these rites, and there is
reason to imagine, thereiore, that in {act none such was set up and that Layard
was mistaken, Since, as Deacon points out, several men may be entering diï¬Åerent
Nimimgki grades at the same time it is not impossible that this stone which
Layard photographed really belonged to the rites of a different grade. It will be
remembered that a small stone is erected at entrance to the much lower grade
Naamel and it is just possible that Layard was confused between the two grades
Nruwwl and Naamzl Eu/on, particularly since he does not record the former at all.
Again Layard tells of a tame: nuamel I:/on which is set up for this degee in a village
other than that of the candidate. There is nothing in any of eacon’s notes
which conï¬Årms this and it is possible therelote that in this, too, Layard was
mistaken. (Le-yard, p. 170, and plate xv, ï¬Åg, 3.)—C, H. W.