The traditional response was war and raiding and both

taken to be evidence that the Kawelka tribe used sorcery to kill the Tongka Big Man. The traditional
response was war and raiding, and both Ongka and his father-in-law have participated in raids in the
past. Ongka calls to some of his relatives who have married into that tribe, giving them a pig for the
funeral/memorial ceremony along with a special branch that marks his oath that the Kawelka had
nothing to do with the Big Man's death. Resolution: The moka is eventually held, but not before other
troubles occur. As stated, rivalry between competing Big Men in the tribe is unending. Raima, one of the
other Big Men in Kawelka, disrupts the moka the night before it is to occur by leaking information that
claims he and his supporters did, in fact, kill the other Big Man in the Tongka tribe by sorcery. Ongka is
upset, because Raima has no business bringing the topic up at such a late date, and because the
information causes a huge commotion among the people. The following day, the day the moka was to be
held, the members of the Kawelka tribe who have married into the Tongka tribe begin a raid on Raima in
revenge for his alleged sorcery. Ongka stops them by sitting in the middle of the road. They stop their
attack momentarily to listen to his advice, and some of them drop out of the war party while others

continue. Raima is not killed, but a few days later four of his pigs are killed. Perewa, who had been