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the people, including both visitors and members of the village,
of the various vegetables and fruits, and among the visitors only
of the portions of village pig. The vegetables are eaten then and
there, but the visitors take away the pig for eating in their own
villages. The actual putting on by the child of his perineal band is
done afterwards without further ceremony.

The same ceremony is observed in the case of the son or daughter of a
chief, except that in this case the child is more fully decorated, the
family give two or more pigs, there are more visitors, and the whole
ceremony is on a larger scale; also that, after the performance of
standing on the dead pig and receiving the feather ornament, the child
is placed standing on a platform, which may be only 5 or 6 feet high,
but may be as much as 15 feet, though no further ceremony appears to
be performed whilst it is on that platform. If children of ordinary
people undergo the ceremony at the same time as a chief's child,
they apparently stand on the platform also.

When the ceremony is performed at a big feast, it is substantially
the same as that above described, subject to certain variations,
which almost naturally arise from the change of conditions. There is
no special dancing, as distinguished from the dancing programme of
the big feast. The vegetable food provided will be included in the
general stock, so that the people of the village will not share in
it; and the ceremony of standing on the pig is postponed till a later
day, and on that day, the child, having worn his special ornaments,
other than the feather ornament, at the big feast, will not again
wear them when he stands on the pig, though his feather ornament is
put upon him on that later day.

It may be mentioned that this perineal band ceremony and all the
other ceremonies relating personally to both children and adults, if
not performed at a big feast, may be performed together, the people
concerned in each ceremony being taken more or less in batches; and
indeed this generally is so. But in that case each class of ceremony
would be performed separately. One person may have more than one
ceremony performed for him on the same occasion, but if so a separate
pig must be provided in respect of each of these ceremonies, and there
must be a separate receptacle and a separate supply of food in respect
of each of them, though it does not follow that the total amount of
food to be provided, othe