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THE "MAKING OF MAN " 653 Butwanabaghap's wife, though it may perhaps be inferred.‘ But which is the dolmen under which BL1tWanabaghap's body rests ? It would seem at ï¬Årst sight that it is the stone table inside the “ House of Butwanabaghap ", but there are two facts which make this impossible. Firstly, it is clearly stated that the table- stone under which he sat was supported by three uprights, one at either end and one at the back. This resembles the account given of his grave, which was then covered with a mound of stones, whereas the stone-table inside this house has only two uprights. Secondly, Deacon himself entered " the house oi Butwanabaghap " and saw the stone»table there. judging from the fact that he was not allowed to approach the graves of Mweinggii Veo and Ravaai, it is inconceivable that he should have been permitted to examine this structure had it contained the body of the ï¬Årst Knbat. I1: seems more likely, therefore, that the body resided i.n a dolmen covered with earth and stones some- where in the vicinity of the logho, and this would harmonize with Deacon's earlier statement concerning a low mound pointed out to him as Butwanabaghap's grave. In order to make the people of the district strong and fruitful these " mummies “, which are spoken oi as temes, are washed ceremoniaily with a certain infusion prepared in a bamboo, of which only the nmmghut nugho know the composition. First the body of Butwanabaghap is washed in the men's house,whither it is apparently brought from its tomb, aiter which the female ï¬Ågure is washed in the women's house. The ï¬Ånal rite of the Naghn Tilabu/e appears to he the dance nitukuna. This dance may also be performed during the clan nagho celebrations, but as danced at the close of the Great Nagho it has as its distinguishing feature the display of, and subsequent race with, two images of the Kabatl The dance itself takes place on the ground in front oi the amel (men's house) ' and lasts for two nights. Both men and women take part in it. The men have their faces painted, and wear a shell attached by a strip of coco-nut leaf to the temple, as for M bms 1 This would run counter to the tradition that the people at Mdprnes came iorth from a ii-es which sprang itflm the sluill of ButwanahaghAp‘s wife, But the Nogha Tilllhwd is sseutinlly associated with the mythology which traces the descent of the Mulpmes clan from the two sons of the Kehat and the nigh at0nes.»—C. i-I. w. * This is presumably the ordinary mil oi the village, not that inside the lflghfl, tor women are never allowed in the sacred plane.—C. H. w. - hi’ '7 " ' * '7'—"'* 7 " 1 Li 1"
