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Fig. 2. — Islanders of iVaiajie with scar-ornameuts on the .body. 

 tPhoto. Ü. Mori.) 



a man and a woman in love make cicatricos on eacli other as signs 

 of Udelity, so that scarification may be said to signify troth besides 

 serving as ornament. 



As regards the neighbourhood of the South Soa Islands n<3w in the 

 liands of Japan, the custom of cicatrization is also met with in New 

 Guinea, Melanesia, part of Polynesia, i.-?., Tonga and Hawaii. It 

 is, further, practised among the Natives of Australia and the Negrit(j 

 tribes of Luzon. Tlie cicatrices are of the two kinds mentioned, 

 i.e., by cutting or burning the skin, usually on the shoulders, the 

 upper arms, the breast and the back. But sometimes cicatrices 

 are made on the face, as in the case of the native, j of New Guinea, 

 Solomon Islands, and Hawaii. ^ The M"keo people in British New 



' G. A.. T. Van der Sande, - Nova Guinea, 11 F. Ethnog. and Anthr.," p. .50. A. B. Meyer 

 and E. Parkinson, - Album von Papiia— Typen II," Dre.sden, 1900, Pis. 45. 47. W. Ellis. 

 " Hawaii," p. 170. 



