PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION F. 305 
Here the six different classes are shown under the letters A, a, 
B, b, C, c, D, d, E. e, F, f, the capital letters representing the male 
and the small letters the female sex ; and though some of these 
do not come under either Kuridiatupuana or V Vatunatuleia, they 
belong to the Aariianasa, and consequently are non-marriage- 
able. 
The above laws are clearly and distinctly laid down and 
understood and followed by all the members of the different 
classes or clans on Tubetube. There is no law against a man or 
a woman marrying with those living at a distance, or on another 
island, provided they are not of the same totem or consan- 
guineous. 
5.—BURIAL CUSTOMS AT TUBETUBE, BRITISH NEW 
GUINEA. 
bY? Revie J) Tooke. 
Tue period of mourning for the dead on Tubetube is a variable 
one, being regulated by what the natives call the “ Boriborime” 
(S.E. wind) or harvest season. For instance, if a man dies in 
January or February, the term of mourning will terminate about 
July or August, which are the harvest months of this people. 
A, period of six or seven months. Should a man die in Sep- 
tember or in August, the mourning would extend over eleven 
or twelve months. 
Outward signs or evidences of mourning are worn by the 
Tubetubeans in the shape of a band fastened round the neck, 
which is made of strings plaited together. This string the 
people make from the fibre of a tree. From the neck-band a 
number of pieces of this string, about 18 in. long, are pendent, 
descending over the chest. Also worn as a mourning necklace 
are a number of large white cowries, fastened end to end on a 
band of plaited string, and reaching as far down as the waist of 
the mourner. This is worn by the women. In addition to the 
above, the body is blackened with a pigment made from the 
charcoal-of the husk of the cocoanut. All the relatives, male 
and female, blacken the body in this way. The outward tokens 
of mourning also indicate that the wearer abstains from eating 
certain food, included in which are the best of the native foods 
so that fasting during the period of mourning is to the native 
of Tubetube not one “merely of theory, but stern reality. The 
things that a native dearly loves—yams, pork, fish, taro, and 
the different preparations of sago—are all tabooed during this 
time, 7.¢., whilst the mourning tokens are worn and the body 
blackened. 
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