[1] The madnol and the palinol are sacred days on which certain activities are prohibited (see [Chap. XVII]). [↑]
[2] Eugenia Arnottiana. This is the tree in which the hole is cut at the pursütpimi ceremony. [↑]
[3] This was a marvainolkedr, but the rules for the earth-throwing are the same at the first funeral. [↑]
[4] Ind. Antiq., 1874, vol. iii., p. 274. [↑]
[5] Bull., 1901, iv., p. 12. [↑]
[6] These photographs were obtained from Messrs. Wiele and Klein, and I do not know the place or nature of the funeral which they illustrate, but there is no indication of a pen in the picture; they probably represent throwing earth at the entrance of a former pen. There is such a place at Taradrkirsi, the male funeral place of the Kars clan. Here earth is thrown by the side of a wood where the forest has grown over the site of an old tu. [↑]
[8] If the word teiks is the same as that of teak wood it would make it probable that the buffalo was formerly killed by the side of a wooden post and that the use of a stone is secondary. [↑]
[9] Owing to the fact that the Nòdrs people do not kill both of these kinds of buffalo at one funeral at the present time, they now only bring one of the two bells from Òdr. [↑]
[10] Some observers have stated that the feet of the corpse are placed within the mouth of the buffalo, but I could not confirm this. [↑]