The Folb Tales oj tlie Kiwai Papuans. ■J-2V 



said Iregide, „I been find him pickaninny, no more belong you." „You look after that pickaninny 

 good." said Wôboiâme. „Along my place I got fat fMg, by-and-by 1 give." Iregide said, „1 got 

 plenty fish — belong you me (us)," and he gave him ail sorts of tish and garden produce. „Thal 

 pickaninny he open him niouth belong me," he went on. „1 no savy people, ail same clengeiici 

 (mythical beings in the bush, cf. Introduction to. no. 102) I stop. I no kaikai. That girl he make 

 me good, that's why I speak pickaninny belong me." 



When Woboiânie was about to leave, his friend said to him. ,AI1 time 1 ualk about that 

 swamp, that's ail gammon I speak he got alligator." VVoboiâme returned home to ügri and told 

 his people that Mürke remained with Iregi'de. He went frequently to visit the two. 



Once the Ûgri people prepared a great dance and invited their friends to come and take 

 part in it, the \V(')bie, Sôreasàre, and Gôreva peoples. The guests arri\ed in différent groups, and 

 the men drew their bows and ran round the mens house before they sat down. Ircgîde and 

 Murke arrived last, everybody admired the girl, and Wöboinme told the people that she was his 

 daughter. The dance lasted ail night, and when .Mûrke was dancing iregide held a burning 

 torch over her to show her off. ^^ In the morning al' the people went home. Iregfde and Mi'irke 

 among the rest. (Gågere, Mâsingâra). 



A. A certain Tâti man named Urne had no mouth or anus. The name of his daughter was 

 Miiruke. She cooked food for hini, bui he gesliculated ihat he did net want any, for he could not 

 eat. One day she determined to eut him a mouth and asked him to lie down wiih his head in her 

 lap, saying that she wanted to clean his hair from lice. After a while he feil asieep, ^^ and in order 

 to make sure she called out, „Father, me finish look out lOuse; come on, you me (\ve) kaikai !"^- 

 But he did not stir, and then she eut open his mouth and anus, and a white matier poured out. On 

 waking up Ûme was very glad and kissed her. Another day he went and invited many people to a 

 dance, and a great feast was held. Everybody admired Müruke. Ûme asked a man named Béne to 

 shoot his tame pig for the people, and subsequently Béne married Müruke. (Gibuma, Mawàta). 



B. A certain girl in a place on the Büdji side was very badly ireaied by her step-mother. 

 She was left to walch her little brolher, and her step-mother told her to eat his e.xcrements when she 

 was hungry. The girl lied to her mother saying that she had ealen them, but the e.xcrements which 

 had the faculiy of speech called out, „ÄV«o kiawo kôiio kcsàico. — Me fellow hère, he^^no kaikai me." 

 And the step-mother compelled her to eat the e.xcrements. One day the girl tied up the little boy so 

 Ihat he could not leave the house, and ran away herself to another place. She found a man without 

 a mouth, and he nourished himself by inhaling the amell of the food. „Suppose he good man, he 

 take me ail right,"' she ihought, .,1 no like bad man take me, by-and-by he kill me." She was kindly 

 received by him and remained with him. One day she eut his mouth open. 



The girl's father wanted to find out where she had gone. He went to a great many places 

 anvi left behind him a iwig with gay leaves which are used for decorating a dancer. That is a way 

 of inviting the people to come and dance. He e.xpected that his daughter would come with the other 

 people, and so she did, and her husband was there too. They ail made friends, and the girl 

 remained with her husband, but they were asked by her father to come and visit them frequently. 

 (Iku, Mawàta). • 



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