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THE NIMANGKI TLEL SOCIETY 449
unscraped and are allowed to burn almost to a cinder. They
are permitted to drink coco-nut milk and to suck sugar-cane.‘
The men who are already members of the society do not go
into seclusion on the same day as the Mi/nli. After the ceremony
of nmap, however, they visit the laghar daily and build there
another house which is called the mbuh lm nduop (" the hole in
the miuop tree â€ù). This is for the accommodation of the novices.
It is only si rough shed with grass thatch, and as soon as it is
completed the mivali are moved into it from the mmmel am.
Five days after the nenap, a. second ceremony concerned with
the dead man is performed. This is called nensmsonggnrian.
The male relatives of the deceased who are also related to the
novices come to the loghor, each man bringing with him a pig.
These pigs are presented to the dead man's " executor ", who in
return gives to each a pig of rather higher value. This is,
apparently, regarded as the last of the funeral payments in which
the dead man’s pigs are distributed. It corresponds to the pig-
giving at nitemah, at those funerals for which the rites of Nimangki
Tlel are not celebrated. Immediately after these gifts and
counter-gifts have been made the novices are invested with the
ï¬Årst insignia of the society ; the head-band of plaited pandanus,
called mum sds, and the crotons belonging to the society, which
are thrust therein. They also receive their new names (mums
loghov). This each one purchases from a. man who already bears
itqithe-novice’s father paying the latter a pig.‘
‘Iii FAfter-this the physical trials of the novices begin, those who
=.vie1mérnbe'rswoi the society beating them for the ï¬Årst time with
leaves of the nettle-trcc.“ Such a castigation is repeated on every
occasion that the ndvali are shown any new object connected
with the Nimangki Tlel or are invested with any fresh insignia.
It is on the evening of this day that the men who are already
members begin to take up their residence in the logharl They
_ 1 This could cnly he allowed to novices of the N1wi'M6r0h, 10: sugar-cane
nzlsneiiiiztcltlniizncicty nnu niny not therefore be touched by nicn oi the Nimangki
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' The new nnnic which the novice reteivei is not a. title, such in is acquired
at entrance to ii Nalawan grade in Seniung, but ii genuine personal nnnin. F0!
nic cypni Of names bestowed soc above.—C. H. W.
- run only icicis to novices ci uic Nlfli i4.i-vcli, the 'nettle~tIee being one
01 the Sabled plant! belonging to it. For initiation oi the novices ci Nimangko‘
Misi, nionisi Efld fllmll ti-ccc are used.»-A. B. D.
- According to one note the " novices " include young men or boys who
are attending the Nimavtgln rm IRES for the ï¬Ålit Of second iinic. The "initiated
l1embel'B" must already have been in seclusion in the l0§/IOY on at least two
separate occasions previnusly.—C. H. w.