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606 MALEKULA
Rahulemp show a similar correlation in the yam (nimbaai). The
clan of Lelembel is interesting as one of the few that take their
name aiter the totem. Here the people were engendered by the
stone which stands in the sacred place. We have no account
of the Neerew Nunggut (banana) perFORMED by this clan, but,
we may judge from analogy, it seems probable that the rites were
concerned in part with this sacred stone and it is possible there?
fore that in this clan too there is a certain correspondence bciwecn
the totem and the ncerew object} [The most complete correlation
is shovm by the villages Uranu and Mbwilmet where the totem
is the famine stone, from which they are descended and which
is in the sacred place of each, while the neerew is -also famine.
The village of Mbwilmbar shows an association almost as close
as that of Uraau, for its ancestor is Temes Mor Van] (the ghost
of a great ï¬Åghter), who dwells in the sacred place and who is
invoked by the nimbatin nowar in performing the Neerew of War.
On the other hand there are certain features in the list which
show a rather interesting lack of correlation between the merew
and clan totem. In the ï¬Årst place there are several clans whose
totem and neerew object are not allied, as for instance those of
Luha, Tivulemp, and Tunggor, all of which have the ninibila as
totem but “ make “ different objects ; this is particularly notice-
able in Tivulemp who " make â€ù both pigs and a variety of ï¬Åsh.
There are many other examples oi this lack of correlation and it
is peculiarly marked in such of the clans of Wilemp as we have
record of. Further, it has been pointed out that certain clans
share the same totem, and these also usually share the same
neerzw object. But in addition there are clans having the same
mum and different totcms. Thus a N eemzv Nimbuas is perFORMED
by Ndawu, Ncmep, and Eviin Ambus, as well as by those that
have the pig for totem. Similarly the Neerew Nikakal is PEI’:
FORMED by On Nevet, whose totem is the clam as well as by
Benaur and Teleleu. It would seem, loo, that a group of clans
having the same totem may cut across a group having the same
merew. For example, Leneven belongs totemically to Benaur
and others having the nikakal as totem, while on the basis of
similarity oi nears-w object it is associated with Nembiirii and
Lembinewen. '
I rum is no myth recorded oi Ran Map, the chief village of mt clan,
which might suggest the banana as 3 secondary totem comparable to um of
the nivinuinbon tree of um“.-c. H. W. H