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Among the Shans there obtains the custom of placing the coffin on upright timbers at some height above the ground . Among the Nagas, and especially the Kuki Nagas, who are said to be most nearly allied to the Karens, beside a number of the culture elements which we have noticed above as common to Karens and Kayans, other noteworthy points of resemblance to the Kayans are the following: A system of tabu or GENNA which may affect individuals or whole villages, and is very similar to the MALAN of the Kayans; the practice of ornamenting houses with heads of enemies, the motive of taking the head being to provide a slave in Hades for a deceased chief; the use of human and other hair in decorating weapons.
So the King sent his men forth under Major General Kalaimoku and the two host met a Kuamoo. The battle was long and fierce men and women fighting side by side, as was the custom and when the day was done the rebels were flying in every direction in hopeless panic, and idolatry and the tabu were dead in the land! The royalists marched gayly home to Kailua glorifying the new dispensation.
Just now it is almost impossible to obtain one, all the feathers being 'tabu, to make a royal cloak for Ruth, half-sister of Kamehameha V., and governess of Hawaii. Mamo feathers are generally worth a dollar a piece, and a good lei or loose necklace costs about five hundred dollars. Kahilis are also an emblem of rank, though many people use them as ornaments in their houses.
A little delicate management of this sort will often have more influence over young persons than the most vehement scolding, or the most watchful and jealous precautions. The Tabu was always most scrupulously regarded, after this, whenever employed. MENTAL ANALYSIS. Scene, a class in Arithmetic at recitation.
This whole region is under the ban of a most terrific tabu, that loads unthinkable curses on any human being who removes a single atom of any metal from it!" "Ah, that's it, eh?" "Yes, that's very much it! And what is more, Major, no word of this ever gets out to the white races or hardly any. Nothing more than vague rumors that barely amount to fairy stories.
The girl's tabu, apparently." "The Laird appears to be a human being. Have you spoken to him about this Nan girl?" "I tried to once. He looked at me and I didn't try any more. The fact is," the doctor added, lowering his voice, "I have a notion that old Hector, through Daney, gave the girl money to leave the country."
Further, a tabu prohibited women from eating with men, even with their husbands; and when, on the death of the first Kamehameha, his Queen Kahumanu, an energetic and fearless virago, dared for the first time to eat with her son, a cry of horror went up as though "great Pan was dead;" and this bold act really broke the power of the heathen priests.
Had you examined the strand you would have found that a line had been drawn across the beach, beyond which there were no footmarks: that meant that the rest of the island was for some reason tabu. Dick pulled the nose of the boat up a bit on the strand, then he looked around him. He picked up a broken spear that had been cast away or forgotten; it was made of some hard wood and barbed with iron.
These constituted the leading committee, or, as it was afterward termed, Singing Committee. Singing now became a regular and interesting exercise of the school, and the committee succeeded in managing the business themselves. TABU. An article was one day read in a school relating to the "Tabu" of the Sandwich Islanders.
The nobles and the King and the priests were always suspending little rags here and there and yonder, to give notice to the people that the decorated spot or thing was tabu, and death lurking near. The struggle for life was difficult and chancy in the islands in those days. Thus advantageously was the new king situated.
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