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THE NIMANGKI soon;-rv 313
with this. As we shall see, there is between this grade and M but
Ru, Noulas, and Nuhazmdal. a clear ritual similarity.
Neliwis
After the usual arrangements have been made between the
candidate and his introducer, four small temas, measuring from
two to three feet high, are cut and carved. They may be made
of any wood which is oonveuient, though tree-fern is usually
selected. Two of them are represented with a faoe and body, and
two of them with only a face. A yam is then taken and a face
(mum mbam) cut in this and decorated with two pig's tusks.
Another face, similarly embellished, is made from a sprouting
coco-nut (metulip) and painted in red and black with the face
design which belongs to this grade. The four temes are then
erected inside the amel with a cord fastened to their apexes, so
that they form a rectangular enclosure like the numbul of earlier
grades. The carved coco-nut, which is called nawm ndindrul
(navan =fruit ; miinduel =swinging) is suspended from this
cord between two of the temes by a rope which passes through a
hole in its top. The decorated yam lies on the ground inside the
enclosure. Between the temes, other than those between which
the coco-nut is hanging, are planted three objects called mm’
mews. These are constructed of sticks of wimwangk with white
vim» leaves threaded on to them. This whole structure, the
mumbul, being ï¬Ånished, m'su/mgï¬Åndow is beaten that night and
again on the following morning when the guests arrive and
abegin to dance teur. After a while the candidate kills a. mbuas
rows pig for them to eat. Then the introducer takes the decorated
yam from where it is lying and gives it to his assistant. The
'gongs are now beaten with irawau, and holding the yam in his
hands the assistant dances. Presently the rhythm changes to
-mun‘ timbam;/2 ; the dancer goes to the door of the amzl, receives
the payment of a pig from the candidate and thereupon enters
the amel and lays dovm the yam, once more inside the numbul.
The candidate now brings forward further pigs which he gives
to his introducer as payment for the various objects connected
with this Nimangki structure: one pig of lohonkdoran value for
the decorated yam; one nitavu pig for the numbul (this pig is
eaten by the assistant and his friends) ; one mbuas ares for the