. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae. Science. The Folk-Taks of the Kiwai Papuans. 535 wood and after loading the canoe he had a swim in the creek, but there he was taken by a crocodile. Part of his body was found afterwards, and the people wailed and buried him. (Biri, Ipisi'a). THE MAN WHO WAS PUT TO SHAIVIE AND COMMITTED SUICIDE (no 491-492). 491. A certain låsa woman was in the habit every day of looking after her j'ounger sister's baby, while the other woman was working in the bush. ^ In the evening the younger sister brought her a little food, but at the same time she used to ask her f
. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae. Science. The Folk-Taks of the Kiwai Papuans. 535 wood and after loading the canoe he had a swim in the creek, but there he was taken by a crocodile. Part of his body was found afterwards, and the people wailed and buried him. (Biri, Ipisi'a). THE MAN WHO WAS PUT TO SHAIVIE AND COMMITTED SUICIDE (no 491-492). 491. A certain låsa woman was in the habit every day of looking after her j'ounger sister's baby, while the other woman was working in the bush. ^ In the evening the younger sister brought her a little food, but at the same time she used to ask her for some nipa palm leaves which the elder woman's husband had brought home. At length the elder sister got angry and smeared the leaves with some of the baby's excréments before giving them to her sister. Not suspecting that anything was wrong the younger woman used the leaves for wrapping up some bundles of sago. But when the men ate the sago, they noticed the bad smell and spät out the food. The sago was taken back to the woman who had prepared it, and as she went to her sister to enquire, the latter confessed what she had done. „No fault belong me — fault belong you," .she said; „everj' time you ask me give you sôko (nipa leaves). I look out you (your) pickaninny. What name (why) you no take sôko self?" The people all heard what the elder woman had done. Her husband felt greatly ashamed, for he was one of the leading men. He sat up all night and did not want to go near his wife. The next day the people went to fight another tribe, and this man hastened to the hostile village first. Without waiting for anj'body to follow he entered one of the houses alone and after killing two men he was overpowered. „That thing I want him," he said, „I no come for fight, I no want go back, I shame. That's enough two man I kill him; on top them 1 fall down. Fault belong my woman, 1 ; He was killed, and the enemy eut off his head. When the fight was öve
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