20 Art. VU. — A. Watsumura : 



Guinea burn the skin on the arm with the incandescent tip of 

 a small wooden stick to make a romid scar with a diameter 

 of about one centimeter, and in a certain village young girls often 

 have six or seven lines burnt on each arm.^ Among the natives 

 of the Admiralty Islands circular spots about the size of half a 

 crown are disposed over the upper part of the chest and shoulders."^ 

 These cicatrices are very similar to those met with in the Caroline 

 Islands. In the islands, however, one does not observe shapes of 

 snakes, dugongs, sharks, porpoises, frigate birds or leaves, either 

 cut or burnt, such as are found among the natives of New Guinea, 

 Torres Straits, New Georgia (Solomon Is.) and New Hebrides.^ 



As already noted, the object of cicatrization is chiefly to 

 decorate the body as well as to indicate bravery. But the scarifica- 

 tion formerly done by the natives of Hawaii* jmd that still prac- 

 tised by the women on Astrolabe Bay, German New Guinea,^ is 

 made in mt^'mory of deceased chiefs and near relatives. Again, 

 the Negritos in Luzon burn the skin for curative purposes, besides 

 for personal adornment.^' Among the natives of INIowat in British 

 New Guinea, girls on approaching womanhood have cicatrices made 

 on the chest, to prevent the breasts dropping. Among the same 



1 E. W. Williamson, '• Some unrecorded customs of the Mekeo People of British New 

 CJuinea," Jour. Anthr. Inst., XLHF, lüllB, p. '2(VJ. 



- H. N. Moseley. ■ On the Inhabitants of the Admiralty Islands, etc., Jour. Anthr. Inst., 

 VI, 1877, p. 401. 



■Î G. A. J. Van der Sande, " Nova Guinea, III. Ethnog. and Anthr.," p. 49 ; Pis. XL VII, 

 XLVIII. 0. Finsch, " Samoafahrten. Pieisen in Kaiser Wilhelms-Land und Englisch-New Guinea 

 in den Jahren 1881 u. 1885 .. ," Leipz'g. 1888, p 3;U au.l fig. A. C. Halden, "The Ethno- 

 graphy of the Western Tribes of Torres Strait--," Jour. Anthr. Inst., XIX, ISUO, pp. 306, 367; PI. 

 Vn. 13 T. Sjraerville, " Ethnographnal Notes in New Georgia, Solomon Islands,' Jour. Anthr. 

 Ins»., XXVI, 181)7, p. 365. G. Turner, " Samoa," p. 310. 



^ W. Ellis, Hawaii, p. 170. 



5 O. Finsch, (juoted by Van der Sande, " Nova Guinea," III, p. 50. 



c W. A R€ad, " Negritos of Zamba'es," Department of the Interior Ethnological S irvey 

 Publications, Vol. II, Part 1, Manila. VJOi, pp. 3(). 37. D. C. Worcester, "Non-Christian Tribes 

 of Northern Luzon," Piiilippine Jo.ir. Science, I, li)i)('>, p. 807 ; Pis. XXIII, XXV. 



