Before these pigs are killed it is customary for young men to wrestle with them, and many of them are often so severely gored by the long tusks of the animals that they have to be carried away in litters. This portion of the festival is called _Yeng Awn_--the great boar--for each of the animals which are dedicated to the purpose is looked on as a sacred creature, and is offered as a sacrifice in token of the last head of the family who died. From the remaining portions of pork they separate the fatty part and prepare lard from it by pounding it in a wooden mortar and boiling it down in an earthen vessel. This lard is preserved in coconut shells and eaten with meals like butter. A few shellsfull are presented to those of their friends who have assisted them. This portion of the ceremony is called _Wanaka Kuv_ (making lard), and with the immediately preceding stage lasts for four or five days. Then commences the ceremony of _Kisu ta el pati_, during which all the decorations of the houses are removed, and dancing and singing take place inside. This is done in order to purify the house. Next, the practice of _Tanang alah_ (prevention) takes place; and throughout the day the people busy themselves covering the houses and huts in _Elpanam_ with green coco-palm leaves, to prevent pollution by the disinterred bones of next day's proceedings. They take their supper in _Elpanam_, and dance there all night. At this point, the climax of the whole is reached in _Anúla Kopáh_, or _Ula Kopáh_ (digging the graves). The women, children, and others stand at a distance from the graveyard, and one or two of the adults belonging to each of the houses commemorating, open the respective graves, remove the bones, and throw them in an adjoining bush called _Tam n'gi Kopáh_[207]--burial-place of bones (ossuary). But they replace in the graves the skulls of respected people or heads of families, and after refilling the holes with earth, place over them the new _kuimitila_ or _kare-yeng-chón_ (headstones). Before the skulls are replaced, however, they are sprinkled with the blood of fowls and young pigs. The men who break open the graves are termed _takkuwi_ (polluted) and when all is over they bathe in the sea, and then spend the night in the "house of pollution," after a period of feasting and dance in the _Elpanam_, called _Kiriam Anúla_ (digging dance). Two or three days later the coco-palm leaves are removed from the houses at _Elpanam_, and another performance is held called _Kiriam-nga-rit-roi-ta-oka_ (dance for clearing up coconut rubbish). Next morning sports and a little wrestling take place. Finally, the people invite some of the _mafais_ of adjacent villages to give a performance, and entertain them with gifts and feasting. This ceremony is called _Afai tapoia_, or _Mafai tapira_--grand _mafai_ dance. When it is concluded some other village is challenged to a canoe race, and a dance and feast follow. With this ends the festival of _Kana Awn_.