The Folk-Tales of Ihc Kiwni Papuans. 329 



A. Very like the previous version. Gimodo (as he is called hare) found the female crayfish 

 which he called Sikåru or Sikariiburo and married her, for he was a „story-man". Sikäru died in the 

 sun, and he buried her at the root of a huiiio- or kun/miiree and vvailed as in the first version. A 

 banana tree grew iip from the craytish, and Gimodo was visited by it in a dream and taught the 

 observances to he foUowed when planting bananas, which are the same as in the tîrst version. 

 (Gaméa, Mawäta). 



B. Gimodöburo, a Büdji man, married a woman called Skarüburo who was also a crayfish 

 (Mawàta, nmanio ; Kiwai, siàni or sikdni). She died in the sun and was buried, and some banana 

 trees grew up from her body. Gimodöburo v.-ailed, „Skanibmo Skanibiiro Gimodvbiiro Gimodöburo."' 

 (Tom, Mawàta). 



THE ORIGIN OF GAMODA (no. 269-271; ef. p. 14 and Index). 



269. A male kangaroo at Kijru once cleared a spot of ground by eating off all the grass 

 there. Playing about, the animal caused its semen to run out on the ground, where it became a 

 ^aw/orfa-plant which Struck root and began to grow. The first kind of gdmoda which grew 

 there is called ivésapia, it was the first garden plant in the world, taro, yam, and all the others 

 being much låter. One day the kangaroo came back to the place, and seeing the gtimoda thought, 

 „Oh, that my thing, my blood been go along ground, make him that thing come up." The 

 kangaroo said to the gdmoda, „I plant you for people, make good thing along people. That time 

 people been plant him garden finish, he go home, he make gdmoda, one big man take him leaf 

 belong gdmoda, dip him along that gdmoda, splash along people. He call him name belong that 

 man he been plant him garden, say, "You plant him taro, sweet potato, yam ; all that thing come 

 out good, he no dead along ground. Next year he grow big one, make pienty kaikai.'" 



„Missionary asks us to give up drinking gdmoda," my informant said; „Me fellow think, 

 "Me leave him that thing? me no leave that thing?' iMe fellow talk self, "So, me no can leave 

 that thing, that first thing in the world ? Suppose me leave him, place come poor, you me (we) 

 no got no kaikai. Suppose me no got no kaikai, what name (what thing) me eat? Me fellow 

 fright (fear) Jesus Christ; one thing, me fright our kaikai too. That's why me fellow dnnk gdmoda. 

 Gdmoda no all same grog. Grog that make proper wild, gdmoda — wild no come out, man he 

 no much talk, he too släck, he want sleep. Morning he feel nothing." (Amtira, Mawäta). 



270. The first gdmoda sprang up at Sareéve from. the dung of a kangaroo and was found by 

 a Mâsingâra man named Bege. He called out, „Hallo, what's there come up? He smell belong 

 him come, what name (what is) that he stop along ground, very nice?" He told the other men 

 to come and look, but they did not dåre touch the gdmoda. One night the gdmoda-p\ant came 

 to Bege in a dream and said, „My name gdmoda. More better you fellow drink me, that good 

 thing." He showed the men how to prépare the drink, and went on, „You plant him that wood, 

 by and by pienty gdmoda he come. You drink first, behind (then) you give pienty people he 

 drink. That dead he come (people fall into a drunken sleep), that no proper dead, by and by 

 morning you get up." 



Bege did as he had been told. He coUected a quantity of gdmoda -plants and prepared 

 the beverage, while the people looked on. When Bege had emptied four small bowls of gdmoda 

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