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Art. VII. — A. Matsnmura: 



For instance, in Yap tattoo marks diftbr between free men and 

 slaves, the same occurring also in Rotuma, Hawaii and other 

 islands. There is a custom among the natives of New Guinea 

 that tattoos are used particularly by the warrior who has killed 

 an enemy. ^ In Formosa, it was the original custom among the 

 Tayal tribe to permit tattooing only to braves who took scalps.- 



Fig 3. — Tattoo marks on tlio right band of the wife of a chief of 

 Metalanim. Ponapé. 



Tattooing is also used by most women, irrespective of age, 

 though there are young women who have only small marks on 

 their upper limbs. Among the women of Ponapé, however, some 

 have tlie upper and Lnver limbs covered with marks. On the 



' C. G. Seligmann, " The Melanesians of iJritioh New Guinea," Cambridge, 1910, p. 130 ; 

 PI. XIV. A. C. Hadclon, " The Decorative Art of British New Guinea," Dublin, 1894, p. 17G. 

 K. W. Williamson, " Some unrecorded customs of the Mekeo People of British New Guinea," 

 Joiir. Antbr. Inst., XLIII, 1913, p. 2r,9. 



2 Y. Kojima, " Keport on the Inve.stigations of the Wild Tribes in Formosa," (in .Japanese), 

 Vol. I, 1915, p. 102; Vol. IIF, 1917, ])!>. 54, 97. Y. Siyama, " Re)'ort on the luvettigations of 

 the Wild Tribes in Formoia (The Saztk Tribe}," (in Japane^^e), 1917, Pfc. I, p. 73; Pi:. II, p. 94. 



