IIORX EXPRDITIOX—ANTHROPOLOGY. 
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Naming of Children. 
Young native children are named after animals or parts of animals, trees, 
bushes, inanimate things, natural features and personal peculiarities. This name 
may be, and is usually, kept, hut if a personal characteristic should develope later, 
they are often re-named, the original being dropped. A child born with a deformed 
foot would bear through life the name Inga kuria hirta (crooked-foot) ; ci-oss-cyed 
children—rare occurrences—are invariably called Alkna ku?'ta ku7'ta (crooked 
eyes) \ web-fingered children are similarly mamed (Af'/vka) after the deformity. 
A man or woman with a remarkably long foot would be known as Iffga alp7tnga 
(long foot), and left-handed persons are called Akwaa thaka (left-handed). 
Mourning Customs. 
When a man dies the father of the deceased throws himself on to the body, 
where he is cruelly beaten by the old women of the tribe, who attack him savagely 
with yam-sticks (^atniniina). lie receives their attacks without defence or remon¬ 
strance and, to all appearance, is too much o\'ercoTne with grief to he capable of 
experiencing physical pain. The men of the class of the deceased destroy their 
weapons and even their clothing. 
As a sign of mourning the natives of both sexes paint their bodies with white 
clay (kaolin) and plaster their hair with the same material. 
When a Panunga man dies all the men of the Kumarra cla.s.s cut themselves 
on the shoulders and sometimes on the legs with stone knives. In addition to this 
two Kumarras stand out and belabour each others’ heads in turn with yam-sticks 
(atnimma) until one or both are unable to bear any more; the wonder is that they 
can bear so much, for their heads present an awful spectacle. 
On the death of a Kumarra the Panungas mourn for him in the same manner. 
A Pultarra is similarly mourned for by the Purulas, who in turn are mourned for 
by the Pultarras. 
When a woman dies her mother mutilates herself horribly with a stone knife, 
and submits to being mercilessly beaten about the head by two women of her own 
cla.ss ; for instance, if a Panunga woman dies her mother—a Kumarra—mutilates 
herself and is beaten by two Kumarra women. 
A man goes into mourning for his wife by painting his body, but there is no 
mutilation, nor do the other men of the tribe paint themselves in any way. 
