Note 20 — LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The child is named after its face has been uncovered. The ceremony is called per vasthpimi, “name we give,” and it may take place immediately after the ceremony of uncovering the face, or a few days later. In the former case, the child, if a boy, is taken by his father from the place where the buffaloes are standing to the front of the house, and there the father shaves the middle part of the head of the child. Then the boy’s maternal uncle (mun) gives the name, and promises a calf, saying, pòl ud todein, “calf one I have given,” followed by the name of the child,20 and raises each foot to the head of the boy and touches his forehead, the salutation on this occasion being called kalkartiti. Three grains of barley are put into the mouth of the boy and three into his back-hair, and then the grains are thrown away.