. The Nandi, their language and folk-lore. Figs. 39 and 40 (scale ^). Pestle and Mortar. the male. The mortar is beaten by the pestle when a child or achicken is very ill, and when a woman suffers much at birth. Nobodymay sit on or step over either the pestle or the mortar. When a maker. Fig. 41 (scale \). Nandi stool. sells a mortar he spits in it, and says : Ui poiisie (Go and work forhim). A honey barrel, moinget, is made in two halves, the upper partbeing called the male, and the lower the female. When a man isabout to hang a honey bairel in a tree for the first time, he makesmarks on it w

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. The Nandi, their language and folk-lore. Figs. 39 and 40 (scale ^). Pestle and Mortar. the male. The mortar is beaten by the pestle when a child or achicken is very ill, and when a woman suffers much at birth. Nobodymay sit on or step over either the pestle or the mortar. When a maker. Fig. 41 (scale \). Nandi stool. sells a mortar he spits in it, and says : Ui poiisie (Go and work forhim). A honey barrel, moinget, is made in two halves, the upper partbeing called the male, and the lower the female. When a man isabout to hang a honey bairel in a tree for the first time, he makesmarks on it with his knife, taps the tree, and says : Iro ni kot ne-lalang. > I—I Xw <Ph I ??!3 Ins UJ4, ^•^ 7^ ^\/^ *<— / V) \ L k \ o ^ <u V • ^ V

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