to cut up the pigs.  This is not done by a chief or special person, nor is there any ceremony connected with it.  Each pig is cut into seven parts, namely, (1) the head, (2-5) the four legs, (6) the bowels and internal parts, and (7) the back and sides.  I was told that each part of each pig is destined for a certain person, as arranged beforehand.  It follows that, if there are, say, 100 pigs, there are 700 predestined pieces, which are known and remembered, though there are no means of recording them.  It is difficult to believe the truth of this, but I was assured that it was correct.  The pieces of each pig are placed on banana leaves, by the side of the spot where the body had lain, and all the pieces are distributed among the male guests.  Everybody who has given a pig knows the length of each part of it, though he could not express it in numerals.  Each male guest has a piece given to him, which, if the feast be a return feast, will correspond in some way, which I could not understand, with what he had himself provided at the previous feast.  But dancers receive larger and better portions than do mere singers.  People who have fed up pigs for members of the hosts’ community also receive portions.  In the distribution of pig each man is called in turn as before, and in the same order of priority, and runs up and gets his piece of pig, and runs back with it; but in this case he is not accompanied by a woman.

Fifteenth:  The feast is now over, and all the guests return to their homes, taking away with them everything that has been given to them.

Sixteenth:  The village has, however, to undergo a process which I may perhaps call purification.  As soon as possible after the guests have gone, the men of the community go off into the bush and capture wild pigs, for which purpose they may have to hunt for three or four days, or even for a week or more.  They must have at least one pig, and they generally have two or more, even up to six.  When caught, the pigs are brought alive into the village, and are killed upon the site of the cut-down burial platform, this being done by the pig-killer.  The pigs are then cut up and eaten by the members of the villages of the community, those of the village itself eating their portions there, and those of the other villages taking their portions away and eating them in their own villages.  Except as regards the killing of the pigs on the site of the grave, the whole performance appears to be quite informal.  After the eating of the pigs, perhaps on the same day, or if, as is probable, the feast lasts until late in the evening, then on the next day, the women of the village clear away the filthy mess of blood and garbage by which the village enclosure is filled, and sweep the enclosure from end to end with branches of trees.  Then the bulk of the villagers leave the village and go off into the gardens and the bush for a period of about six months.  The feast has denuded the village of food, including even sweet potatoes, to which they