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village, people of the Southern Massim district, from Bona- 

 honay Dahuni, etc., used to come, even in olden days, and I 

 was told that people from Ar6?na, in the west, occasionally 

 used to come as guests of the Mailu for the exceptionally 

 sumptuous feasts. On the mainland the range of invitations 

 was much more restricted, a few neighbouring villages only 

 being invited. I failed to ascertain whether the inland people 

 (Uddvia, etc.) were accustomed to come to the mainland 

 Madunas. 



The village community amongst which the feast took 

 place acted collectively as the host — even if the feast was given 

 by one or by a couple of clans only, and not by the whole 

 community ; the latter, however, always had a great deal of 

 work to do in the way of helping the feast-giving clan, and 

 they would, moreover, undoubtedly share in its glory. 



In the larg^er communities, such as those of Mailu, 

 Kurere^ Bomdra — I think even Derehai — the feast is given 

 by one or two clans. Thus this year (1914-15) the Madnna 

 in Mailu was given by the Maradiihu and Mordu clans ; the 

 previous year by the Urumoga ; two years ago by the Bodeaho ; 

 three years ago, again by the Maraduhu and Mordu, and so on, 

 by one or two clans in turn. The smaller clans, Maraduhu 

 and Mordu, which have been weakened by recent emigrations, 

 naturally combine to give the feast jointly, but I was told 

 that in olden days, when they were strong, the custom was ta 

 give the feasts independently of each other, just as the two 

 stronger clans do now. I was also told that when a very big 

 feast took place in those days the Maraduhu and Mordu, on 

 the one hand, and the Bodeaho and Urumoga on the other, 

 used to combine in giving it. 



As the Maraduhu and Mordu formed the western half of 

 the village and the Bodeaho and Uriimoga the eastern, the 

 local contiguity of these clans was reflected in their association 

 as feast-givers. 



Again, in the small mainland villages the feast was always 

 given, not by a clan, but by a village community. This was 

 quite natural, because some of these villages were composed 

 of some ten to twenty houses, whereas Mailu has, roughly,, 

 eighty houses at present, and must have had more in the past. 



Thus the friendly villages, which in the past lived on the 

 hills about Port Glasgow, Millport Harbour, and Mayri Bay,^ 

 used to hold their Madunas in turn, one or more of the com- 

 munities each year officiating, independently, as the feast-giver. 

 In this manner the villages of Boreho, Ddgoho, Unevi, Pediriy 

 Geagea, and Banoro acted towards one another in respect to 

 the feast just as the clans in Mailu village do, though among 

 the Mailu villagers the solidarity in the preparations to the 



