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nuts each : one dish held five nuts : two dishes, six each : two had 

 each nine nuts, and one dish contained fifteen nuts. Four of the 

 Leaf-dishes belonging to the gimokud held, respectively, one, two, 

 seven and eight nuts, and the other two kiniidok had four nuts each. 

 Main Awas. On the afternoon following the Pamalugu in the 

 river, preparations were being made for the second Awas, as well 

 as for the setting out of the Taming branches, both of which 

 ceremonies were scheduled for the sunset hour. Kaba had already 

 whittled out two rough figures of wood, to be used in the Tanung T 

 and Ido was chiding the women because thev had failed to make 

 the leaf-dishes for the Awas. Then Miyanda and Singan hastily 

 pinned together some pieces of hemp-leaf, — enough to make nine 

 ceremonial vessels, — and were just stacking them into a pile 

 when Da tu Oleng arrived in haste at the Long House. He appeared 

 to be under strong emotional stress, and instantly called, in an 

 agitated voice, for Ido and then for Singan. Immediately after- 

 wards came Datu Yting, bringing the startling news of an earth- 

 quake shock that had occurred shortly before. It must have been 

 a very slight shock, for none of us at the Long House had felt 

 the tremor ; but straightway all ceremonial activities were cut 

 short. The three chiefs, with Buat and the two women. Miyanda 

 and Singan, held an informal conference on the porch. At this 

 deliberation the fact came out that if any Ginum ceremony is 

 held on the same day that an earthquake shock is felt, the deatli 

 of all the members of the familv of the man who is giving the 

 Grinum will certainly follow. On the other hand, the moon 

 would be full in a few days, and, if the Ginum were deferred 

 until after the date of full moon, it could not then be celebrated 

 at all that month; because to hold the festival during the third 

 or fourth lunar phases is strictly tabu. An animated discussion of 

 the question, including many calculations and much pointing toward 

 the moon, was summarily closed by Datu Yting. who announced 

 that if they did not hold the culminating ceremonies within two or 

 three nights, he, for his part, would go home without waiting for 

 them. Now Yting's judgment was revered throughout the length 

 and breadth of Tallin, and to lose his presence at the feast was 

 unthinkable; accordingly, it was proposed to hold the Taming and 

 the Awas rites on the next day. and to let the chief rites of the 

 Ginum follow at night. The final ruling, however, placed the main 

 ceremonial two days later than the earthquake; while the Taming 



