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6x2 MALEKULA K
are associated with the wut maul at all, though since the illfbflnazf
tion concerning Lambumbu is very-incomplete, such negativé‘
evidence is of little value. There is, however, a brief 'not'e
conceming nogharo ceremonies as a whole which states that many?
of them are worked by means of spells (and, presumably, -the’.
performing of certain rites) muttered over stones rescmbling;
the species to be increased, Thus bananas are multiplied by
acting upon stones resembling bananas ; for bread-fruit (nembei)
there are certain stones in the wut moul oi tho clan which perforn-|5_
the nogham nembet. There are also in this same tabu-place,
ccrtain sacred pots oi the same kind as the naambai fou‘nd"iï¬Å
Seniang. To increase the bread-fruit the stones are taken ahil?
placed inside one of the sacred pots to the a,ccompaniment‘l§}'
spells. It is perhaps signiï¬Åcant that just as in the Seniang the‘_sSi
pots were associated only with the nezveiu ior pigs, so here, wheiie».
they are found, as at Tambinbon, Ltiwag, and Tivlamp, they tit;
associated exclusively with the nughard ‘of bread~fruit andailt
even called ambwi mmbet, that is, " bread-fruit boxes " (Ambili
= " box "; Nzmbzt w " bread-fruit "). ‘Kl It may be inferred from the foregoing account of the Noghditlv
Nimbuah that cach clan has its special clan fertility-magicia'rl[¢
but the title of the olï¬Åce and all details concerning it are lackixigti
There is one interesting statement, however, about the magiciaiis ‘
of the clan Ran Nemhew who perform the nagham of pigs. "Iii
order to safeguard the‘ pigs of the district against disease, these
men receive on their death different burial from that of ordinaiy ‘
people. It is't~rue that their bodies are placed in the ground iii;
the usual way, but their heads are left projecting, for iris greatly
feared that, shouldthe earth come intu contact with and’ rot the
head of a pig»magici.an'then universal sickness of, or misfortu_1ié~i
to, the pigs will follow; they will die, or their‘ tusks will bank.
or will not grow long. The cheeks of the magician are buriit;
away with ï¬Åre, then. the head is covered with a leaf, cut dff‘
from the body and put up in the men's club-house, not in thief
charnel~house as is done for ordinary folk. Sometimes the feat“
that the earth will come in contact with the head is so great
that the body is not buried, but is ‘put into an old gongwhich is -
set on a rough trestle in the charnel-place, out of reach of tliié,
dogs and pigs. It is said that a gong is only used because it is
a ready-hollowed tree, and that where therearo canoes one 05?