[Note: this transcription was produced by an automatic OCR engine] l~ t THE NALAWAN SOCIETY 395 evening the gongs give out the rhythm a1'sum[>miew, the invitation to other villages to attend the ceremonies next day. While they are being beaten the introducer takes a bamboo, mzmlmfl nambangk, and plants it near the newly-built amel, an act which is doubtless parallel to the more elaborate planting of the same type of bamboo during the ceremonies of higher grades. In the morning when the guests have arrived the dance nimbumbal is performed, during which the introducer takes a banana stick and gives it to the candidate as a symbol of the pig with which he is about to present him. Later in the day he fetches an animal of mbcmg mevils grade from his house and hands it to the boy, who stands near the gongs and kills it. Having done this he takes up his position between the amel and the gongs and the same old man who oï¬Åieiated on the day before is called again and asked to pronounce the boy’s new title. He comes forward and calls out: " Nehm nimbrmtcmg tiingk, Tel/mbwir I "slapping him on the back as he utters the Last word. This is the end of the ceremony.‘ Numbou Nemen AND Numbou Vzmmasur When once a boy has become a member of Naluwm Naamel Limbu, he is at liberty to enter the optional grades Numbuu Nemm and Numbou Vamnesur. The accounts of the ceremonies of thw: two are very fragmentary, but the general scheme of proceedings seems to be as in the earlier grade. For the Numbou Nemen, the candidate builds a small amzl as before. Close to this a banana (mesur) is planted and half-way up its trunk the carved ï¬Ågures of birds are fastened. These represent tour different kinds: mmimb, nimen bongamit, nivinbr/lm, and vilmis. There is no gong-beating or dancing, nor are there any masks associated with this grade, but when the amel is decorated and ready the candidate brings his pigs up one by one and pays them to his introducer, the formula of presentation being apparently: " Nimbuas nin nemm tinungk." Four pigs is the usual number thus given, one of mbuas mos grade for the numbou ncmm (? the decorated banana), another of the same value for the mmwn (the birds), one of loh|mka’aran for the croton 1 The accounts oi the entrance to this grille are la: from being either l:le|.r Or consistent, but the general scheme seems to be oufltncd is above. rt is vary probable, however, that it is incornpletcl-—C. H. w.
