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chosen places. This rite occurred synchronously with one of the 

 offices of the Awas, and consequently J. did not hear the ritual 

 words, although we were not very far from the spot where the 

 branches were being set out. 



Main Tanung. The main Taming consists in setting in a hole 

 in the ground a large human figure of wood, which is put outside 

 of the festival house, in the hope that Buso, mistaking it for a 

 living man, will be afraid to pass by it. Two of these figures 

 are put on station. 



On the day of the earthquake, Kaba brought in large branches 

 of the red-leaved terinagum, and the mottled green- and white- 

 leaved terikanga, to be ready for the planting. Then, from a chunk 

 of terikanga-wood, he fashioned two human figures nearly three feet 

 in height, roughly cut and highly conventional in form. With his 

 short knife he shaped out, first, a circular ridge outlining the limits 

 between head and trunk ; below that, a three-sided bust and waist ; 

 then, leaving a protruding abdominal region, he sloped off the body 

 gradually to the base, so that it ended in a six-angled point for 

 the feet, with no division for legs. 



"This is to make the Buso afraid," remarked the old man glee- 

 fully, as he whittled away at the image. 



The ceremony took place at sundown, when the tanung branches 

 were set out in two places: on the path winding to the river, and 

 beside the way leading to the other houses of the village. Ten 

 different varieties of trees and shrubs were represented, each of 

 which had a charm value so that it would be effective in pro- 

 ducing the emotion of fear in the evil spirits. At each of the 

 places where the tanung was planted, one of the human figures of 

 wood was also placed, the leafy branches being clustered so close 

 about the figure as almost to conceal it. Oleng performed the 

 ceremony, with the help of two young men who dug the holes 

 and assisted in "planting" the figures and branches. 



The first part of the rite was performed on the path leading to 

 the river, and here the tanung was set out on the right-hand side 

 of the way. When the younger men had done the manual part, 

 Datu Oleng turned toward the clump of magic branches enclosing 

 the image and, facing south, made the following invocation. 



"I plant this tanung toward the south for all you, anito, and fur 

 you, Malaki t'Olu k'Waig. I plant the tanung so that sickness and 

 other harm will not come to us at Grinum. All of you, anito. we 



