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THE NALAWAN SOCIETY 391
the value of pigs in English currency, that at one N alawan which
he entered he made payments to his introducer as follows :—
£ s.
2 mbzmg mcvfls at £5 each . . I
2 nitaim ,
4mb14a$ oros I1 £1 , . , . 4
5 lohonkdoram , 10:. , . . . 2
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He received from his introducer a tisimbw, whose value he
judged at £12. In his view, half of the pigs which he gave went
to pay for the Nalaunm and half for this tirimbw pig. As will
be seen, this is approximately true, if his estimates in pounds
he accepted. The most important pig in the whole series of
ceremonies is that which almost at their close is killed by a spear-
thrust after a conch shell has been broken against its forehead,
as is the "sacriï¬Åcial" pig in the Nimangki. This is generally
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an animal of tisimbw grade, and is regarded as being in payment
for the title which the new member of the grade receives, the
ritual conferring of which follows immediately upon the pig's
death. The jaw of this pig is kept afterwards by the new member
as a memento of his rise in rank, and when he is dead it is fastened
to one arrn of his rambw/amp or memorial eihgy (see Plate XX, 1).
Before passing on to an account of the Nalau/an ceremonies
it will be as well to give a more detailed description of the sacred
iemes naninggal. These may be conveniently referred to as
"wooden cylinders" ; actually, however, they are bullet-shaped,
closed at the pointed end, open at the other (v. Plate XIIB).
Their form and structure can be seen in Fig. 22. In length they
vary from about two to about six feet, their diameter being in pro-
portion. Eanh instrument has a characteristic pitch, the interval
between the notes of two adjacent ones being very lrequently
a ï¬Åfth, though semitones are also common. In every well-
equipped Seniang club-house there is what may be called a
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