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between their legs on to the plattorm where they pass över the pig on all l'ours. Just as each one's 

 head is above. that of the pig, he is given a certain „fighting medicine" to swallow after the pig's head 

 bas been touched with the „medicine". Among the Kiwais the wild boar is the symbol of fighting, 

 particularly its powerful head which it turns against ihe pursuers when brought to bay. After this rite 

 the pig is eut up and eaten by the oldest people, some parts of the meat being reserved for purposes 

 of sorcery. 



The other principal part of the inogiii/t includes certain se.xual excesses during which promis- 

 cuous intercourse takes place between the se.xes. The purpose is to prépare „medicine" for the sago- 

 palms, and lo a less extent for other plants also, and the people too take a little of the same life- 

 giving eli.xir (the semen). 



Many minor rites and dances belong to the mogiiru. 



279. At first the läsa people used to live in holes dug in the ground. One day their 

 great leader Martinogére said to them, „No good you me (we) stop along ground; that place 

 belong ant. More better you me go outside. Come on, you me eut him post." And they went 

 and eut posts and built a äai'tiiio. 



When the house was completed, Martinogére wanted to hold the mogåni ceremony, but 

 as he did not know what thing to use in performing it he tried a bündle of arrows. The people 

 tied the bündle to the central post in the dårimo, the heads pointing upvvards, and beautifully 

 adorned they danced all night to the sound of drums and trumpetshells. Another night MariJno- 

 gére said, „You me start now go kill him people," for he wanted to try the etïect of the mogiiru. 

 The låsa people set off to fight another village but were themselves badly heaten and some of 

 them killed. They came back wailing över their dead, and Mariinogére said, „No good fashion 

 we been find him now, no good take Icrcpålu (bündle of arrows) make dance, that's why people 

 he lose." 



Next Mariinogére tried to make the inogüru with a bunch of coconuts, and when one 

 had been brought into the däriuio. the people tied it to the .same post and held a big dance as 

 before. The bündle of arrows was put aside in the house. .At daybreak when the dance ended 

 Martinogére said, „You me (we) to-morrow go fight another place." But instead of killing any 

 of the enemy many of Mariinogére's own men were killed, and the survivors returned home 

 wailing. 



Then Martinogére said, „That thing he bad, you me (we are) wrong. More better you 

 me take him out that coconut, put him one side where bündle arrow he stop. You fellow go 

 catch him sting-ray, any kind fish, put him along rope, bring him here." A long string of tish 

 was brought home and hung up on the central post in the dårimo, and sounding their drums and 

 trumpet-shells the people danced all night. The next morning they again went on the war-path 

 but were repelled by the enemy with great loss as on the previous occasions. „Oh, that another 

 thing," said Martinogére, „my people he come short (few in numbers) now, I wrong all time." 

 He ordered his people to place the fish where the bündle of arrows and bunch of coconuts were 

 and decided to try another device. He rolled up a tlro (mat of pandanus-leaves) into a bündle 

 and decorated it with a feather head-dress, breast-shell, groin-sheil, and other ornaments belong- 

 ing to a man, and then the people held the same dance. But in the next fight again many of 

 them were killed, and Mariinogére shook his head lamenting, „My people close up finish, bad 



Tom. XLVU. 



