ABSTRACT
This chapter elaborates some of the behavioural tokens associated with the tsunono which seem to persist, markers of a stratification which recent generations of Buka have experienced, at times intensified, sometimes attenuated. It is concerned with particular features of the legitimacy of the tsunono, as they change with the generations of circumstance. The chapter emphasises that the importation of ruko figures demonstrates that elements of the ritual scenario were traditional only in the sense that the nitsunono of the rulers of the villagers was enhanced with a special power that they later might have cause to regret. The enhancement and its later correction constituted a social movement which we will indicate was never independent of the movement to accept Christianity and to localise it.
