158 Gunnar Landtman. 



„Kupâri manu kcke kåihariike Ki'iiamo. — - I sorry man, I been clean him out all place, my 

 name Kijiamo." 



He arrangea the heads in rings round a large tree and encircled them with coconut leaves. Dancing 

 round the heads he sang, 



„Ngài Kiiiamo kåithu gårka. — I Küiamo I been kill all people." 

 Kiiiamo went to live on top of a hill in Måbuiag on the Bâdu side, and died there of his own accord. 

 (Gaméa, Mawåta). 



B. Kiiiamo was a bad and ugly boy of Måbuiag. He used to fight the other children, not- 

 withstanding his mother's scoldings. One day he put on war attire of leaves and feathers and killed 

 his mother with a spear, and after her nearly all the men and women of Måbuiag, sparing only his 

 sister's son, whom he adopted, and one man who was full of sores. He sent the latter to summon the 

 Bddu people to come and fight him, and when their canoës came near, Küiamo turned his head quickly 

 and with his däri, head-dress of white feathers, caused such a wind that mats and sails broke. ^' He 

 killed all the Bådu men with his spear. Afterwards he summoned the M6a and Någiri people and 

 fought them in the same way. 



Küiamo's sister had hidden herself and came to him Irembling with fear, but he spöke kindly 

 to her. He went to live on top of the hill in Måbuiag and became a hihare (general name for mythical 

 beings). He lay down on his face with his neck resting on his folded arms. „Suppose," he told the 

 boy, „any people come from other place fight, you call my name, .Kiiiamo !' Me there alongside help 

 you." Kiiiamo remained on the hill and was no longer a man but like a stone; many people have 

 seen him. (Gibiima, Mawäta). 



C. 'Küiamo dressed himself in a covering of leaves and danced, holding a stick as if he intended to 

 fight the people. First he danced at Mawåta, and the people ran away from him, and then he went 

 and danced in the same way in Såibai, Böigu, and Daväne, frightening the people everywhere; finally 

 he returned to Måbuiag. He was angry with his mother, speared her, and eut up her body. He threw 

 away the différent pièces of the body into the water and made of them a dugong, a turtle, and varions 

 fish, but he kept the head.*' Küiamo remains in Måbuiag on top of the high hill called P6do. 

 (Nätai, Ipisia). 



D. Küiamo soiled his mother's mat with his feet, and she beat him with a stick. After this 

 had been repeated several times Küiamo one day put on a dress of leaves, killed his mother with his 

 spear, and eut off her head. He then went to fight the Möa, Bâdu, Yam, Såibai, Davåne, and Böigu 

 people, and returning to Måbuiag put all the captured heads together in one place. One night the Bådu 

 and Moa people came and killed him. (Epére, Ipisia). 



E. Küiamo was a great fighting man of Måbuiag and killed many people. He went alone to 

 various Islands and places inhabited by bushmen and secured many heads. „Fashion belong me people 

 before, that man he eut him plenty head, he big man." Küiamo's weapons were a kûbai (throwing 

 stick), and bdgari, or hdiira, (spear). At last the ktihai broke and he returned to Måbuiag. The skulls 

 captured by him are still there. (Amüra, Mawata). 



F. While Küiamo's mother was making a mat he came running earelessly and with his foot 

 tore away the string which she was holding with her great toe, and his mother scolded him. He 

 dressed himself in fighting attire of leaves and killed her with his spear, the two points of which 

 pierced her eyes; he also eut off her head. The next day he painted himself red and black, donned 

 lull war dress, and fought all the Måbuiag people. After that he went to fight the Böigu people. 



Tom. XLVII. 



