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TOTEMISM 597
btem of the clan and by the men of the former village the famine
tone is their ancestor, for it was out of the Navel Namar that the
iuinu mbzm tree grew whence sprang the ï¬Årst men of the
Idindinemer clan.‘ -
It is interesting to note that at Tivulemp and Nemep the
ilace of the sacred stone is taken by certain pieces of prehistoric
iottcry which are found in the nembrmbrkon of these villages.
‘he people of to-day do not make pottery nor have they any
nowledge concerning the manufacture of these pots, but they
attribute them in a rather vague way to the Ambat.“ They are
called mulmboi, and are found sporadically in the South-West in
Mewun and Lambumbu, and even in the inland district of Nesan,
always in the sacred place of some village. The chief centre for
them in the South-West is Iumoran on Tomrnan Island, which
was also the home of the most important fertility ceremony of
the district.’ Whether these p0t5 played a part in this ceremony
is not clear, since the inhabitants of lumoran are all but extinct
and the rite has not been performed for many years, but at
Tivulemp and Nemep they are important in the new/aw fur the
increase of pigs.‘
It is not certain who may enter the mmbrmbr/eon. It is
clear that women and children may not do so, nor should they
even approach too near. Thus the nembrmbrkbn of Loorernew is
inhabited by the tamcs called Malunggil Veo and his wife Lising
Vinwongk," and if a child ventures or strays too near this sacred
place Mzilanggil takes it and it disappears. But evidence
concerning the position of men in this respect is conflicting.
According to one account the place may not be visited with
impunity by any but the nimbatin miwor, or by someone under
his protection; elsewhere, however, we ï¬Ånd two statements to
the effect that it is open to adult males, but that men of one
clan do not go near the mmbrmbrkan of another.
* It is also probable that the Naval Namnr is also the totem of Loorll, but
mi this village he totem is recorzled.-—C. 1~i. w.
' Sec Chapters XXI and xxv.
' v. Chapter XXII.
* !t is noteworthy that Tivnlemp Peliflfml two Mflzwi The N. Niiï¬Åmasin
(for pigs) and tho N. Nimaha! [tor E variety oi ï¬Åsh), bin the timed pots are
used my in whhmihh with the i0l‘lIn9l'.--—(Ii H. W.
' - Malanggil Veo is the name I01’ SEX magic in Wilcmp. It is undoubtedly
tho iflmï¬Å Wbld as Mwelnggil Vec, the nan}: mi gcnural fertility magic in s0Difl.fl[{
and MBWDB and of the older 1011 of the Kabut Bulwflllabighapi v. Chapter xxu ;
aha P. s11._c. H. w.
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