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THE NALAWAN SOCIETY 411 to be made into nitevis and six into small GONGs, m'mb1m'lzi tivari, a small stick being also procured to make into a GONG-stick for beating the latter. ‘ The posts are stacked near the nmel and four crotons planted round them‘ The next day the‘ candidate pays his intmducer a small pig (of lnhunkzforan or mbuas Mos grade), the formula being pronounced as in entrance to Naainggol. The dance mvrau is then performed and after this the introducer helps the candidate to carve the faces on the nitevis. These are identical with the nilwis carved for the N ixamp grade. A day is now ï¬Åxed for the next rite of preparation called mviilflim Mai. A pig is killed, a stock of coco-nuts laid in, and plenty of puddings made‘ The candidate and his friends then construct round the GONGs a lightwith banana leaves. At intervals round this a number oi holes are dug, and a bamboo (nimbmi nambangk) (similar to the bamboos planted before the naainggol in the Nultm/an of that name), red cordylines (naari mamal), and a crnton are planted in each. The introclucer and his friends now make some puddings called lavlav, which they wrap up in leaves of the croton, the red cordyline, and the mbwingmbu/ingamb.1 Then a little before sundown they assemble in the dancing ground and begin to circle round the GONGs in the dance callcd lalmgmial, which characterizes the Nalau/an grades bearing this name. The candidate, holding a conch, joins them, dancing round in the opposite direction. Meanwhile a man who " knows how " takes the stick which has been made for beating the new gangs (ma/iltdm mun‘), carves faces on it and decorates it with iowls' feathers, aitcr which the candidate pays him a pig of nitauu grade for his services. This being done, the candidate hands the puddings which he and his friends have prepared to the introducer and receives in return those wrapped in leaves which the introducer and his friends made. After these exchanges have been effected, lelenginfal is begun again and continued throughout the night. At sunrise on the following day a pig is killed as food for the dancers. Now is the time for building the structure characteristic of this grade. The candidate and his friends go into the bush and gather a fresh supply of hamboos (nimbnll nembangk) from which to make the I There L! a note which runs: “These puddings, wrapped in the loaves, are held between hambuus.“ lt is not quite clear when they are so held ; whether during the process oi wrapping them up, or later when they are given to the candldate.—C, H. W. J
