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Each clan has its own gamal, which is strictly taboo for the women, and to each gamal belongs
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914
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Even in my early childhood, I noticed resemblances between certain Hebrew words and their English counterparts: camel is gamal, wine is yayin, and earth is eretz.
Archive 2009-04-01 Kylopod 2009
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Even in my early childhood, I noticed resemblances between certain Hebrew words and their English counterparts: camel is gamal, wine is yayin, and earth is eretz.
The line between cranks and scholars Kylopod 2009
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I thought perhaps he just wanted to make sure I quoted him correctly, but a moment later he showed me a book proposal: This proposal offers a 'hot' new 'tell all' expose on Emmanuel 'toto' Constant code name 'gamal,' and FRAPH ...
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I thought perhaps he just wanted to make sure I quoted him correctly, but a moment later he showed me a book proposal: This proposal offers a 'hot' new 'tell all' expose on Emmanuel 'toto' Constant code name 'gamal,' and FRAPH ...
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The lower jaws of the tuskers were cut out separately and handed over to Palo, to be cleaned and hung up in his gamal in the shape of a chandelier, as tokens of his rank.
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914
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One by one the men arrive, strolling towards the gamal as if unconscious of our presence; some of them greet one or the other of my boys whom they have met when visiting at the shore.
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914
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The jaws of the killed pigs are hung up in the gamal in bundles or rows, as a sign of the wealth and power of the proprietor.
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914
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These figures stand along the walls of the gamal, smiling with expressionless faces on their descendants round the fires, and are given sacrifices of food.
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914
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About once in a quarter of an hour a man would come to bring a tusked pig to the chief, who danced a few times round the animal, stamped his heel on the ground, uttered certain words, and retired with short, stiff steps, shaking his head, into the gamal.
Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914
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