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The former custom ie. up to 20 years ago - any rich man would erect a grave effigy for his father or his son on the latter's death - wealth the criterion, not heads - a man who had taken heads but was not rich got a line of stone heads or posts with wooden heads, and not a figure. |
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Not necessary to have dragged stones - but only to be rich. The whole village to be feasted on erection day. Not necessary to have taken heads. Custom has now died out in Phele. Object to honour the dead 'to cling to relics of the dead man's life'. To pretend he is still alive to cheat or ease grief. never a woman |
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- the times are changing - 'christians are muddling our ideas' - a group of villages N & E of Phele - W & S custom different. |
