NOKTii (,>ii:k.n>land i:tii.\o<:1!ai'iiv — Kuril. ;>S3 



opens it, etc. : lie also wraiis it up witliiii the trough, including 

 the head. Some of the flesh is left in the grave because of the 

 trough being full. Now all the men come 1o the grave to find the 

 'splinter " which is believed to remain in tht^ dead man's Hesh, and 

 with which he was struck, speared, or cut by the one who doomed 

 him'" while he was alive ; and when they find it, as they pretend 

 to do, they bury it in the soil with the remains. After this, the 

 brother ties up the corpse in the trough (juite firmly, ])uts it on 

 his head,''^ and stands up. Then he runs away from there as fast 

 as he can, being dragged along by the corpse "s spirit, and on the 

 very spot where the man was originally doomed'^" the trough falls 

 off. And he sees the stick with which the deceased had been 

 doomed, and directly he sees it he brings it back with the corpse. 

 All the others are waiting for him at the grave, and having joined 

 £hem he shews them the stick. Thus they recognise the guilty 

 man, i.e., the owner of this stick, and are angry with him. B}'- 

 and-bve the}' all leave the grave, and taking the ti'ough to the 

 camp from which the ' tabu ' is now removed, put it in the shade. 

 Then the w(jmen conic forth again to cry over it, and when this 

 is done they take up their moveable-possessions and shift their 

 camp somewhere else. One old-man onh' remains there, hi ling 

 himself behind bushes in order to see the spirit^'' of the guilty one. 

 And as soon as the others are gone tlie spirits quickly appear at 

 the grave wailing and screaming, painted with white clay, carry- 

 ing spears, wommeras, and pieces of wood, and also ha^ ing tlieir 

 wives and children with them. But the watcher looks for the 

 guilty one to spear him and does so when he sees him. Having 

 speared him, the others run away screaming and rattling, disap- 

 pearing into the ground. And through them the earth quakes 

 violently but the one who spears the guilty individual holds 

 firmly to the bushes When the spirits are quite gone, and the 

 earth has finished shaking, the old-man lets go his hold of the 

 bushes, comes back and tells the others about his having closely 

 seen all the spirits, about his spearing one of them, and about the 

 earth shaking. The spirits that came to the grave were those of 

 deceased's father and mother and friends, no others, and those 

 only had he seen ; but the one he speared was another man's 



*■ Tliis idoii t)f clooiiiiii^'. the presence of tlie si)liiitei", etc., is explained 1 ully 



in Bull. 5 -Sect. 111. 

 ^' Lil. — makes it (>ii-tli(>-lic;i(l. 

 a-* 1,(7.— i-truck. 

 ^•' For a description of these 'wntclii,' etc., see Bidl. o — Sect. IKi. 



