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‘H ll ‘l 1 ll‘ M ‘l ll (1 *1" 2’ 1;! ll‘ ,< e 606 MALEKULA Rahulemp show a similar correlation in the yam (nimbaai). The clan of Lelembel is interesting as one of the few that take their name aiter the totem. Here the people were engendered by the stone which stands in the sacred place. We have no account of the Neerew Nunggut (banana) performed by this clan, but, we may judge from analogy, it seems probable that the rites were concerned in part with this sacred stone and it is possible there? fore that in this clan too there is a certain correspondence bciwecn the totem and the ncerew object} [The most complete correlation is shovm by the villages Uranu and Mbwilmet where the totem is the famine stone, from which they are descended and which is in the sacred place of each, while the neerew is -also famine. The village of Mbwilmbar shows an association almost as close as that of Uraau, for its ancestor is Temes Mor Van] (the ghost of a great ï¬Åghter), who dwells in the sacred place and who is invoked by the nimbatin nowar in performing the Neerew of War. On the other hand there are certain features in the list which show a rather interesting lack of correlation between the merew and clan totem. In the ï¬Årst place there are several clans whose totem and neerew object are not allied, as for instance those of Luha, Tivulemp, and Tunggor, all of which have the ninibila as totem but “ make “ different objects ; this is particularly notice- able in Tivulemp who " make â€ù both pigs and a variety of ï¬Åsh. There are many other examples oi this lack of correlation and it is peculiarly marked in such of the clans of Wilemp as we have record of. Further, it has been pointed out that certain clans share the same totem, and these also usually share the same neerzw object. But in addition there are clans having the same mum and different totcms. Thus a N eemzv Nimbuas is performed by Ndawu, Ncmep, and Eviin Ambus, as well as by those that have the pig for totem. Similarly the Neerew Nikakal is PEI’: formed by On Nevet, whose totem is the clam as well as by Benaur and Teleleu. It would seem, loo, that a group of clans having the same totem may cut across a group having the same merew. For example, Leneven belongs totemically to Benaur and others having the nikakal as totem, while on the basis of similarity oi nears-w object it is associated with Nembiirii and Lembinewen. ' I rum is no myth recorded oi Ran Map, the chief village of mt clan, which might suggest the banana as 3 secondary totem comparable to um of the nivinuinbon tree of um“.-c. H. W. H
