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F DEATH AND DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD 531 “Nemar itokh hamel, itokh len nuwut mew, wuwui mew, oseil â€ù (" Man he remains in the amel, he remains in the place of life, in the place of life, the only one 1 ") Gradually the wailing died down until all was silent. The ceremony was ended. The following day, the tenth after the death, is that on which the spirit of the deceased is supposed to leave the land of the living and depart for the land of the dead. In the morning the head was removed from the corpse (relip kas nimbatin) and put into a. skull-basket (noomi nimbatin temes) to the accompaniment of the gongs, on which the rhythm it/u dale was beaten : H; I I *1 -1 (repeat three times), for the spirit ct the deceased to depart, followed by the rhythm nuai mereven (" grief â€ù) which is that of mourning :— /- Q ||‘1l<1l1_on"i'wlu1:"l°M‘wl‘1H T T The body was left upon the stretcher, and a fowl was thrown upon the ï¬Åre which was then allowed to go out.‘ ‘ Men then went out into the hush and out tree»fern from which they fashioned the rambaramp or efligy, which they painted and decorated according to the grades of the Nalawan and Nimangki to which Apwil Naandu had belonged.“ This being completed it was arranged that the funeral rites should be brought to an end ï¬Åve days later. In the intervening period another structure called naai var was set up near the gongs. This differed from the naai wor previously erected. It was a kind of doorway consisting of two upright posts joined together at the top by a horizontal pole and decorated with the leaves of the vnbwingmbwingamb, yellow malamir flowers, crotcn sprigs, and other ornamental plants. Croton and malamir bushes are also planted in two lines to form a kind of avenue leading up to it. On the ï¬Åfteenth day after the death, at the request of Vinmewun Ailiit, a man belonging to a grade of the Nimangki, or Nalau/an, of which Apwil Naaridu had also been a member, carried the rambammp out of the amel, in which it had been 1 Layard (p. 207) records that after the fumigation of the corpse, something, generally a fowl, is thrown into the ï¬Åre. No one eats this (owl. The rite is apparently to purify the ï¬Åre. ’ For a description oi e. rambaramp, see below.
