16 Gunnar Landtman. 



in the fight. The former haci a fine nose, while Iküri's was ugly, but the Måo people were fooled 

 into carrying the wrong body away with them, and since then they have unsightly noses, while 

 those of the läsa people are well-shaped. 



FURTHER CONFLICTS AND MIGRATIONS OF THE KIWAIS. 



5. While the people were working in the bush two men who remained at home stole 

 the bows and arrows left in the houses. In the end the thieves were found out, and a great fight 

 took place. After that the Âuti and Paära people moved to their present villages. 



HOW THE KIWAI (lASA) PEOPLE WERE TAUGHT BY THE KUBIRA PEOPLE 

 TO CUT OFF THE HEADS OF THEIR ENEMIES. 



6. The läsa warriors used not to eut off the heads of their slain enemies, but the Kubfra 

 warriors followed that practice. Once an läsa girl was carried off by a Kubfra man who married 

 her. She bore him two sons at Kubira, and in a fight with some läsa people the two boys killed 

 their maternai uncle without knowing him. Their mother recognized her brother's head and 

 lamented. She bade the boys make a great number of beheading knives, and then the three went 

 to läsa and taught the fighting men there to use the knives. In a subséquent fight they eut off 

 the heads of the slain Kubira warriors. — The läsa people had at first tried to eut oft" the heads 

 with the stem of a sharp creeper. 



HOW THE KIWAI (lASA) PEOPLE WERE TAUGHT TO COHABIT WITH THEIR 

 WOMEN, AND THE LATTER TO WEAR PETTICOATS. 



7. The läsa people were afraid of their women. thinking that their genitals were ulcerated 

 sores. A certain läsa man met a Kubira man in the bush, aecompanied him to Kubfra, and was 

 there taught the sexual act. He imparted his knowledge to his fellovv villagers. The läsa women 

 became pregnant and were instructed from Kubira about the observances connected with ehild- 

 birth. — In a similar way the låsa people were taught to smoke, which they did not know before. 



THE FOUNDATION OF THE PAARA AND AUTI VILLAGES. 



8. Two brothers v\ith some companions sailed awa\' from läsa and founded Paära and 

 Âuti. Much fighting took place with the original inhabitants there, and once the latter killed a 

 young brother of the two men, eut off his head, and let his body drift home in a canoe. The 

 original inhabitants were at length exterminated. 



THE ORIGIN OF THE MASINGARA PEOPLE. 



9. Ùa-ôgrere, a woman who had always existed, killed a kangaroo, and the worms 

 which appeared in the deeaying flesh developed into boys and girls. .She took care of them and 



Tom. XLVIl. 



