440 Gunnar I.andtman. 



dead man and arranged a mourning feast. The widow married the man with the white skin. 

 (Biri, Ipisia). 



VARIOUS EXTRAORDINARY OCCUPATIONS (no. ,385—386). 



385. A certain Dåru man and his wife grew tirad of always working their garden and 

 tried to find some other occupation to amuse them. They made two bows and some toy arrows, 

 and although that is a man's work the woman took part in it also. They were both nude and 

 began to shoot at each other, the man aiming at her vulva and she at his anus. Although this 

 was only play, blood begnn to flow. The same occupation was resumed the next day and 

 both suffered] much pain. In the end the women shot her husband with a sharp arrow and 

 killed him. She threw him away in the bush anh burnt herself to death in the house. 

 (Nämai, Mawäta). 



386. The wild pigs used to destroy the garden belonging to a certain Djibu man named 

 Sivådu and his wife named Tåraéde. The woman had no petticoat but walked about nude like 

 a man. She blamed her husband for allowing the pigs to get into their garden. One night they 

 went into the garden to look for the pigs, and Sivägu shot at them with his bow and arrows. 

 He pretended that Tåraéde had been bitten by a pig and that her vulva was a wound, and carried 

 her home, although she was unhurt. There he heated a stone, and in spite of her protest put it 

 on her vulva burning her badly. The next night they went again to the garden to shoot the 

 pigs, and again Sivdgu pretended that his wile had been wounded hy a pig and burnt her. When 

 this was repeated a third time she died. (Gibüma, Mawâta). 



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