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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of several masked executive officers in each village of British New Guinea, who, in accordance with native custom, are charged with seeing that the taboo is observed when it has been placed by the taboo-chief on cocoanuts, areca-nuts, etc., when a failure of crops is threatened.
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