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THE NIMANGKI TLEL SOCIETY 447 necessary in order that a special yam garden may be planted and come to fruition, to provide food for the members and novices during their seclusion. When these yams are nearly ready for lifting, the son, brother, or other near male relative in the male line who is acting as the (lead man's " executor ", detemiines upon a day when the bones shall be exhumed. On this day he goes to the dead man's grave, taking with him a newly plaited basket. Using an ordinary digging stick, he uncovers the remains, puts the skull and large bones into his basket, and carries them to the charnel place of his village.‘ Here he sets up a kind of small d0lmen>l.ike box, about one foot high. made of four stone slabs with one side open, and in this he places the skull and bones. There is then an interval of ï¬Åve