kajira Branding Dress Slave Type Ceremony
~ Collar Types ~
" I had seen few collars on Gor,
but I had learned from Eta that there
was a great variety among them.
They ranged from simple bands of iron,
hammered about a girl's throat,
her head held down on an anvil,
to bejeweled, wondrously wrought, close-locking circlets
befitting the preferred slave of a Ubar;
such collars, whether worn by a kitchen slave
or the prize beauty of a Ubar,
had two things in common;
they cannot be removed by the girl,
and they mark her as slave. "
(Slave Girl of Gor, page 215)
~ Purposes of the collar ~
"What is the common purpose of a collar?"
"The collar has four common purposes, Master,"
she said.
"First, it visibly designates me as a slave,
as a brand might not,
if it should be covered by clothing.
Second it impresses my slavery upon me.
Thirdly, it identifies my Master.
Fourthly--fourthly--"
"Fourthly?" he asked.
"Fourthly," she said, it makes it easier to leash me."
(Explorers of Gor, p 80 )
~ Ko-lar ~
"'Ko - lar,' shea said, indicating her collar.
'It is the same word in English,' I cried.
She did not understand my outburst.
Gorean, as I would learn,
is rich in words borrowed from Earth Languages;
how rich it is I am not a skilled enough philologist to conjecture.
It may well be that almost all Gorean expressions
may be traced to one or another Earth language.
Yet, the language is fluid, rich and expressive.
Borrowed expressions, as in linguistic borrowing generally,
take on the coloration of the borrowing language;
in time the borrowings become naturalized,
so to speak,
being fully incorporated into the borrowing language;
at this point they are,
for all practical purposes,
words within the borrowing language.
How many, in English, for example,
think of expressions such as 'automobile,'
'corral,' and 'lariat' as being foreign words?
'Collar!' I said.
Eta frowned. 'Ko - lar,' she repeated,
again indicating the neck band of steel fashioned on her throat.
'Ko - lar,' I said, carefully following her pronunciation.
Eta accepted this."
(Slave Girl of Gor, pages 80 - 81)
~ Collar of the North ~
" About her neck, riveted, was a collar of black iron,
with a welded ring, to which a chain might be attached. "
(Marauders of Gor, page 85 )
" There were some one hundred bond-maids for sale
in the shed.
They all wore the collars of the north,
with the projecting iron ring. "
(Marauders of Gor, page 158)
~ Turian Collar ~
" She wore bells locked on both wrists, and on both ankles,
thick cuffs and anklets, each with a double line of bells,
fastened by steel and key.
She wore the Turian collar,
rather than the common slave collar.
The Turian collar lies loosely on the girl, a round ring;
it fits so loosely that, when grasped in a man's fist,
the girl can turn within it;
the common Gorean collar,
on the other hand,
is a flat snugly fitting steel band.
Both collars lock in the back behind the girl's neck.
The Turian collar is more difficult to engrave,
but it, like the flat collar, will bear some legend assuring that the girl,
if found, will be promptly returned to her master.
Bells had also been affixed to her collar. "
(Nomads of Gor, page 29)
~ Collar of the Red Savages ~
"The red savages do not use steel collars.
They use high, beaded collars, tied together in the front
by a rawhide string. Subtle differences in the styles of collars,
and in the knots with which they are fastened on the girls' necks,
differentiate the tribes.
Within a given tribe the beading,
in its arrangements and colors,
identifies the particular master.
This is a common way, incidentally,
for warriors to identify various articles which they own."
(Savages of Gor, page 102)
~ Coffle Collars ~
"The collars had front and back rings,
were hinged on the right and locked on the left.
This is a familiar form of coffle collar.
The lengths of chain between the collars
were about three to four feet long.
Some were attached to the collar rings by the links themselves,
opened and then reclosed about the rings,
and some of them were fastened to the collar rings by snap rings."
(Savages of Gor, page 135)
"Another common form of coffle collar
has its hinge in the front and closes behind the back of the neck,
like the common slave collar.
It has a single collar ring, usually on the right,
through which, usually, a single chain is strung.
Girls are spaced on such a chain, usually, by snap rings."
(Savages of Gor, pages 135-136)
~ Common Collar ~
" About my throat, snugly, there was a graceful, gleaming band of steel.
Gathering my wits I simply reached behind my neck
to release the catch, and remove it.
My fingers fumbled.
I could not find the release.
I turned it slowly, carefully, because it fitted rather closely.
I examined it in the mirror.
There was no release, no catch.
Only a small, heavy lock, and a place where a tiny key might fit.
It had been locked on my throat!
There was printing on the band, but I could not read it.
It was not in a script I knew!
(Captive of Gor, page 7)
" The small, heavy lock on a girls slave collar,
incidentally, may be of several varieties,
but almost all are cylinder locks, either of the pin or disk variety.
In a girls collar lock there would be six pins or six disks, one each,
it is said, for each letter of in the Gorean word
for female slave, kajira;
the male slave , or kajirus, seldom has a locked collar;
normally a band of iron is simply hammered about his neck;
often he works in chains, usually with other male slaves. "
(Assassins of Gor, page 51)
~ Coil Collar ~
" It was hot, and the coils of the marsh vine
about my throat were hot.
Beneath the coils my neck was red,
and slippery with sweat and dirt.
I put my finger in the collar to pull it a bit from my throat. "
(Raiders of Gor, page 30)
~ Cord Collar ~
" On some rence islands I have heard, incidentally
that the men have revolted, and enslaved their women.
These are usually kept in cord collars,
with small disks attached to them,
indicating the names of their masters."
(Vagabonds of Gor, page 341)
~ Hammered Steel Collar ~
" The girls were then motioned to the anvil.
First Virginia and then Phyllis laid their heads and throats
on the anvil, head turned to the side,
their hands holding the anvil, and the smith, expertly,
with his heavy hammer and a ringing of iron,
curved the collar about their throats;
a space of a quarter of an inch was left
between the two ends of the collar;
the ends matched perfectly;
both Virginia and Phyllis stepped away from the anvil
feeling the metal on their throats,
both now collared slave girls. "
(Assassin of Gor, page 153-154)
~ Message Collar ~
"Did you note the collar she wore?" I asked.
He had not seemed to show much interest in the high thick collar
that the girl had had sewn about her neck.
"Of course," he said.
"I myself," I said, "have never seen such a collar."
"It is a message collar," said Kamchak.
"Inside the leather sewn within, will be a message. "
(Nomads of Gor, page 40)
~ Example Collaring - Northern ~
"'Look up at me,' said the smith.
The slender, blond girl, tears in her eyes, looked up at him.
He opened the hinged collar of black iron, about a half inch in height.
He put it about her throat.
It also contained a welded ring, suitable for the attachment of a chain.
'Put your head beside the anvil,' he said.
He took her hair and threw it forward,
and thrust her neck against the left side of the anvil.
Over the anvil lay the joining ends of the two pieces of the collar.
The inside of the collar was separated
by a quarter of an inch from her neck.
I saw the fine hairs on the back of her neck.
On one part of the collar are two, small, flat, thick rings.
On the other is a single such ring.
These rings, when the wings of the collar are joined,
are aligned, those on one wing on top and bottom,
that on the other in the center.
They fit closely together, one on top of the other.
The holes in each, about three-eighths of an inch in diameter, too,
of course, are perfectly aligned.
The smith, with his thumbs, forcibly,
pushed a metal rivet through the three holes.
The rivet fits snuggly.
'Do not move your head, Bond-maid,' said the smith.
Then, with great blows of the iron hammer,
he riveted the iron collar about her throat.
A man then pulled her by the hair from the anvil
and threw her to one side.
She lay there weeping,
a naked bond-maid, marked and collared."
(Marauders of Gor, page. 87)