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chapter three - the Ram or village community |
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woman's relations with the kienga |
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memorials to women after death |
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footnotes indicated by boxes within square brackets |
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In married life a woman has little or no connection with (85) her kienga. The connection is, however, resumed at death, and the kienga is largely responsible for her funeral arrangements and ceremonies. No stone memorial is set up over a woman's grave- shaft, but the wooden memorial known as mpa-na-bang is set by the grave, as for a man, immediately after the funeral. For a woman the pendant ornaments are spindles and spindle-whorls instead of hornbill's feathers. |
