9.

(about 40 in. in length) soft thick twigs planted into the sand.

During the dancing season groups of boys, using small bamboos to imitate
drums, perform sometimes for hours an imitation or caricature of the grown up
men's dance. The nearer the feast the more zealous grow the boys, following
in this the lead of the grown-ups.

The children use also to play a kind of tug of war and several other games,
the details of which I failed to record, though I saw them performed several
times. One consists in a row of girls "winding up" into a sort of knot, which
is undone afterwards. In another the girls face each other in two rows and
join their hands. A small girl is taken by the arms; she is balanced on the
joined hands of two girls and then has to spring over to the next pair and so
on. These plays are accompanied by songs.

26.

judge such products of the mainland hill jungle, as feathers, bamboos etc.
also reabhed Mailu in considerable quantities by that route.

Again, some products of the S. Massim (Bonabona) were acquired by the Mailu on their expeditions to the East. Thus the best kind of baskets (Novo ), round wooden dished, carvings in brown hardwood and of a workmanship inferior to that of the Trobriands. From the Mailu the S. Massim purchased dogs, small pigs (imported from Aroma) boars' tusks, shell discs, and clay pots, called by the Massim Gureva. The Mailu imported a number of netted string bags (Motuan name: Kiapa), which they acquired in Aroma.

To return from this digression to the Mailu trading proper, the trading
expedition to Bonabona returned about the beginning of January, after which
they set out ofr their final expedition to Aroma. On this occasion armshelle-
a number of which had been in the meantime manufactured in Mailu and others ac-
quired in the East - were traded for full grown pigs. These were brought back
and were usually at once used for the feast (comp. Chap. V. S. 3.)

Before the expedition started for <u>Aroma</u> a man - usually the chief of the subclan - used to make a charm and pronounce a spell (<u>U'ura</u>) in order that the expedition should be successful and that they should sell the armshells in a lucrative manner and bring back many pigs.