Till' Folk-Talef; of llic Kiwai Pnpuans. 561 



Hre constantl.v burning in their hand, no. 273, 276 A; animais which had fire befoie 

 people had, no. 273; people unaccustomed to fire fall in a swoon when first seeing it, 

 no. 15 B, 272, 273, 4ö8; rites connected with fire, pp. .350 sq., no. 286. Fire-signals, see 

 Signs. 



Fishing, see Hunting. 



Food; people who eat earth, bad fruit, larvae, excréments, the pith of palms, etc., p. 87, 88, no. 

 16, 43, 56 F, 337, 368 B, 414 A, p. 521, no. 477; drying fish and méat in the' sun. no. 

 2 A, 42, 52, 57 L, hO A, 102 B, 135, 153 B, 163, 252, 272—274; other methods of pre- 

 paring food, no. 23 A, p. 189, 229, 235, 388; fabulous baking method, no. 383; people 

 who fall in a swoon when tasting food to which they are unaccustomed (see also Char- 

 acter), p. 83, 95, no. 43, 60 A, 263, 273; teaching people to eat fish, no. 129; dogs were 

 eaten formerly but not nowadays, no. 362; the children who died when eating a snake, 

 no. 409; people who eat snakes, no. 413, 423, 424, 428; the inland tribes are forbidden 

 to eat kangaroo, p. 79, no. U A, B, 14; a man was forbidden by a mythicai being to eat 

 certain kinds of food, p. 210, no. 126; varieties ot forbidden food, no. 416; the women 

 not allowed to cook food for their husbands, no. 7 C; cannibalism, p. 130, no. 57 H,I, J, 

 no. 154—157, 267, 356. 408, 410, 414 B, p. 470, no. 465; human tlesh used as a „poison", 

 p. 343; taken as a magie „medicine", p. 343, 346; the woman who fed exclusively on 

 cassowary méat and subsequently gave birth to a boy with one leg like that of a casso- 

 wary, no. 369; the men who were changed into an éterari after eating an animal of this kind, 

 no. 472; people transformed into pigs after eating the pith of a palm, p. 521; the longue of 

 a certain bird of quiet habits is given as a „medicine" tn a boy in order to make him quiet 

 no. 441; drugging people with sadi. p. 133, no. 465; preparing food for tame pigs, no. 

 365. See Gåmoda. 



Footprints, no. 29, 263. 



Games; koki'idi or paru (akin to hockey), no. 152, 256, 294, 454, 468; using swings, no. 184; cat's 

 cradles. no. 150; race with toy canoës, no. 294; a sailing match between canoës, no. 

 307 C; children racing in order to find out who is the quiekest in catching fish, no. 463; 

 dancing contests, no. 22 B, 44 J, 457; a running race, p. 166. 



Gestures, see Signs. 



Gåmoda (Piper methysHcum), p. 14, 73, 78, 79, 83, 87, 98, 119, no. 150, 170, 197, 243, p. 321, 

 325, no. 271, 276, p. 336, 388, no. 357, p. 428, 499, 521, no. 479; the origin of 

 gåmoda, no. O A, 14, 269, 270, 271; the importance of using gåmoda as a garden „me- 

 dicine", no. 269; a man must not cohabit with his wife after having drunk gåmoda, no. 

 270. See Agriculture. 



The kfirea rite (sprinkling gåmoda or water with a twig, or squirting it out from the 

 niouth), p. 14; performed with référence to fighting, no. 81, 357; for promoting the growth 

 in gardens, p. 83, no. 261 A, no. 269; for hunting, p. 521; when appealing to mythicai 

 beings or spirits of the dead, no. 122, 476; when addressing the people on certain occa- 

 sions; p. 87. 



Généalogies, p. 2, 87, no. 283. 



Gestures, see Signs. 



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