| COLLARS In a girl's collar lock there would be either six pins or six disks, one each, it is said, for each letter 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... Assassin of Gor, pg. 51 |
| Purpose �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, page 80 Pronunciation "Ko-lar," she 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, page 80 Bead The red savages do not use steel collars. They usually use high, beaded collars, tied together in the front by a rawhide string. Subtle differences in the styles of collars, and in the knots which they are fastened on the girls' necks, differentiate the tribes. Within a given tribe the beading, in its arrangement 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 He then unclipped the leash ring from the ring on the straps, under my chin. He then, over the straps, pushed my chin up, and fastened the leash, by means of its own clip and ring, about my neck, a portion of the leash thus serving as its own collar. The loop fitted closely about my neck. Perhaps there was something like a half inch of play in the loop. He jerked the loop open, as far as it would go, to its limit, where it was stopped by the ring and guard. I then had something like an inch of play within the loop. I could not, of course, hope to slip such a tether. "Note," he said. He then gave a slight tug on the leash and I looked up at him in terror. Whereas the loop might widen to the point where I might have as much as a full inch between my throat and the leather, no limit, other than my throat itself, was imposed on its closure. As the leash was now arranged, it constituted a choke collar This was quite different from the earlier arrangement, when the ring had been attached to the sack straps. "Do you like a choke collar?" he asked. I whimpered twice. "They are commonly used for dangerous male slaves," he said, "sometimes for new girls, sometimes for arrogant free women, that they may immediately cease to be arrogant, sometimes for ignorant girls, sometimes for stupid girls. Sometimes women use them for controlling other women, for they have less strength." I looked up at him. Such a collar terrified me. "Do you think it necessary for one such as you" I whimpered twice. "No," he said. "I do not think so, either. But I thought it useful that you should feel it, and understand that it can be used on you here." I trembled. I was not totally unfamiliar with choke collars, for they had occasionally been used in my training, in the pens. I did fear them. I shall elaborate on this matter briefly, at a later point. "Good," he said, "I see that you are an intelligent kajira, and that you understand. But have no fear, or no more than is necessary. I will now make a simple adjustment." He fixed the ring differently. "There," he said. He then jerked the leash. But now it did not close on my throat. It had been adjusted, to be a normal collar. I looked at him, gratefully. I still could not slip it, of course. Witness of Gor, pg. 179 Coffle 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. Another common form of the 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 ring, usually on the right, through which, usually, a single chain is strung. Savages of Gor, page 135 Cord 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 Kur I have something else for you," I told her. "Come here. " She approached me. From my pouch I drew forth a leather Kur collar, with its lock, and, sewn in leather, its large, rounded ring. "What is it?" she asked, apprehensively. I took it behind her neck, and then, closing it about her throat, thrust the large, flattish bolt, snapping it, into the locking breech. The two edges of metal, bordered by the leather, fitted closely together. The collar is some three inches in height. The girl must keep her chin up. "It is the collar of a Kur cow," I told her. Marauders of gor pgs 275. Leather Leash He then turned her about and put a leather leash collar, with its attached lead, now dangling before her, on her neck. Magicians of Gor, page 33 Lock 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 Message "It is a message collar," said Kamchak. "Inside the leather sewn within, will be a message. Nomads of Gor, page 40 Name I traveled with a girl who wore a name collar. "Are there papers on her?" I asked the guardsman. "No," said the guardsman. Most Gorean slaves do not have papers. The brand and collar are deemed sufficient. Captive of Gor, page 348 Northern 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 Plank Each place on the bench is fitted with ankle and wrist stocks, and for each bench there is a plank collar, a plank which opens horizontally, each half of which contains five matching, semicircular openings, which, when it is set on pinions, closed, and chained in place, provides thusly five sturdy, wooden inserts for the small, lovely throats of women. The plank is thick and thus the girls' chins are held high. The plank is further reinforced between each girl with a narrowly curved iron band, the open ends of which are pierced; this is slid tight in its slots, in its metal retainers, about the boards, and secured in place with a four-inch metal pin, which may or may not be locked in place. Each girl is held well in her place, thusly, not only by the ankle and wrist stocks, which hold her ankles back and her wrists beside her, but by the plank collar as well. Savages of Gor, page 60 Plate Ho-Tu grinned. "Call the smith!" said he to the guard. "Plate collars!" To their surprise, the guard then released the two girls, and Elizabeth as well, from their slave bracelets. Flaminius gestured that the two girls should try to rise and walk a bit about the room. Awkwardly, painfully, they did so, stumbling to the edge of the room, then leaning against the wall, taking a step at a time. Elizabeth, now also free, went to their side, trying to help them. She did not speak to them, however. As far as they knew she could speak only Gorean. When the smith arrived, he took, from a rack in the wall, two narrow, straight bars of iron, not really plates but narrow cubes, about a half inch in width and fifteen inches in length. 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 about 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 I could see the heavy metal collar hammered about the man's neck, not uncommon in a male slave. His head would have been placed across the anvil, and the metal curved about his neck with great blows. Hunters of Gor, page 13 Rencers 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, p 30 Rope I had worn only a rope collar, but yet it seemed to me that it, even in its coarseness, made me more beautiful, more exciting. When Thurnus had tied it on my throat he had shown it to me in one of Melina's mirrors. Slave Girl of Gor, page 216 Shipping He freed her ankles of the shackles which had held them at the circular metal platform. Ulafi then, pushing her head down, fashioned the sturdy, steel shipping collar on her throat, snapping it shut behind the back of her neck. It had five palms on it, and the sign of Schendi, the shackle and the scimitar. Explorers of Gor, page 73 Transport We all, too, had new collars around our necks, probably transport collars. They had metal tags attached to them. Dancer of Gor, page 73 Turian 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 "OTHER" CATEGORY Collar Sleeve I reached out, timidly, towards her throat. I touched the object there. "What is this?" I asked. "The silk?" she asked. "That is a collar stocking, or a collar sleeve. They may be made of many different materials. In a cooler climate they are sometimes of velvet. In most cities they are not used." Kajira of Gor, page 46 Errand Capsule I did have an errand capsule, a capped, narrow leather cylinder, such as may be used for carrying notes, messages, and such, on a string around my neck, the string over my collar. Dancer of Gor, page 300 Identificatory Anklet My ankles were crossed and tied together with a short piece of rope. A metal anklet of some sort was fastened on my left ankle." "A girls identificatory ankled," I said, "It is removed after her delivery to Gor" Savages of Gor p181 |