One Last Kai Kai

   I can't resist one last story about the mumut. So this little guy was quickly becoming part of our family and I was quickly trying to figure out how I was going to break it to Mae that we would not be able to take it back with us. The guy who was over POC told us that we could not bring any pets back. One morning Mae got up (late as usual) and started yelling at her brothers. She was accusing them of taking her mumut out of the box it slept in. You must understand a house in PNG is a pretty porous thing. Doors don't actually close and your bedroom may actually be open to a veranda outside. We soon discovered that it was not the boys who had taken the mumut but wasmama's cat. Well, everybody in the village got a big kick out of that, my problem with getting rid of the thing was solved, and Mae was not too upset. So I thought everything was good to go.
   The morning we were leaving we looked over to waspapa's oldest son's house (right next door) and saw them cooking something big. It was in fact the cat. So we asked them what was up with that and they said that it ate Mae's mumut several weeks earlier so they killed it.  Oh yea and as a side note they added Waspapa's son was butchering a goat the day before for our sing sing(more on that later) and the cat kept getting at the goat so he finally got fed up with it and hit it with an axe.
   As I said meat is very valuable in the village so instead of waisting it they decided to cook it and eat it. None of them had ever eaten cat before. But they said it's face was similar to a mumut so it would probably be good. Thank goodness we left before it was finished. I didn't want to eat that thing.