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98 MALEKULA
anyone killed during such strife would not be eaten. Between
different village groups, on the other hand, there existed a
condition of traditional hostility, and cannibalism was practised.
When members of different groups were gathered together
as visitors to some ceremony, this antagonism was expressed in
the arrangement of the dancing ground, for those from each group
sat apart from the others near the path which led to their
village.
THE Kmsr-1u> Svs-rem
The grouping of relatives in Lambumbu shows many
similarities to that in Seniang; thus the mother's brother's
children are classed with the children and reciprocally the father’s
sister's daughter is classed with the father's sister, and the
father's sister’s son with the father, though he may also be
addressed by the distinctive tenn lelel. We ï¬Ånd here, too, that
the father's sister and father’s sister's daughter are called in
the second and third singular possessive by a term which describes
them as a "kind of mother". There are, h0wever,~certain
noteworthy differences, as, for instance, the grouping together of
the mothcrls brother and iather’s sister's husband (the latter
not being classed with the grandfather as in Seniang) ; the use
of the term metelau by both these men for the sister’s child and
wife's brother's child ; and the distinction between the tather‘s
sister and the mother’s brother's wife, the latter being addressed
by her personal name and referred to in the second sing-ular
possessive by a term which associates her with the brother's
wife. Many of the terms show close afï¬Ånities with those of
Seniang, that for elder brother, tuzmgk, being identical.
The Kinship Terms
N angk (2nd sing. smam).
Primary meaning: Mother.
Extended to : M.Sis. ; F.Sis.S.W.
[Ci also -vavwe (znd sing. s’m1 zezowei) meaning F.Sis.]
M amwe (2nd sing. tzrmam).
Primary meaning : Father.
Extended to: F.Sis.S. (also called lalel); F.eB., mamwe
lamp (tomam lam4>).