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exuberant scroll design (PI. II, fig. IIP. Just beneath the point 

 is usually a hexagOnally grooved pumpkin-shaped oblong knob. 

 The perforated scroll work is painted alternately black and red; 



Fig. 9. —Decorated prow of a large Manokwari outrigger. 



below this, the solid base has black, red, and white bands above, 

 with a band of wave pattern below. The stem piece upon which 

 this high pierced prow is fitted is carved from the solid, and fitted 

 upon the fore end of the canoe partly by means of pegs, and 

 partly by a lashing on each side passed through holes cut in 

 projecting cleats left when shaping these parts- 



