women congregated in the far end of the enclosure are all dancing a sort of non-progressive goose step, there being, however, no singing.  But, when the two guest women on the return journey of their second circuit reach the front row of the host women, the latter advance in a body silently dancing (but not travelling so fast as the two guest women) down the enclosure, and so following the two guest women, until they are all congregated at the entrance end of the enclosure.  The positions of the dramatis personae up to and including the stage of proceedings lastly described will be better understood by reference to Fig. 7 and its accompanying notes.  At the end of this stage the lines of guest women are still as shown; but the two special guest women and all the host women are at the entrance end of the enclosure.

Fifth:  Such of the guest men as are not going to join in the real ultimate dance (see heading 9) enter the village at the entrance end, they also being fully ornamented, but not wearing their special dancing ornaments.  They carry their spears, and perhaps in their other hands their clubs or adzes.  Any chiefs who may be among them wear their black cassowary feather ornaments, like those of the host chiefs.  They all advance along the enclosure, jumping and dancing and brandishing their spears, but not singing; and in front of them go all the host women, dancing as before, also in silence.  This double body of people, host women in front, and guest men behind, advance en masse along the village enclosure.  When, in doing this, the guest men reach the three last-erected special trees in the middle of the enclosure, they attack the trees with their spears, never letting the spears leave their hands, and with kicks, and thus try to knock the trees down.  If they succeed in doing so, then this part of the performance is at an end, and these guest men disperse and spread about at both sides and ends of the village; but the host and guest women return from wherever they are to the entrance end.  If the guest men’s first attack on the trees is not successful, they pass them, and continue their advance, as before, to the far end of the enclosure and return back again in the other direction, the host women still dancing in front of them; and on this return journey they repeat their attack on the trees.  If again unsuccessful, they go on to their starting point, and go a second time through the same performance as before, going up the enclosure, and, if necessary, down again; and, if still unsuccessful, they will probably try a third time, the host women always dancing in front of them as before.  The whole of this is one continuous movement, going on till the trees are down.  If after the third double attempt the guest men have still been unsuccessful, they relinquish their efforts; and in that case the pig-killer of the hosts’ village (as to whom see below) steps forward, and cuts down the trees with his adze.  When the trees are down, the performance is at an end, the guest men retire, and the host and guest women return to the entrance end, as above stated.