24 Art. VII.^A. Ma'cSiimHra : 



besides the uppei- limbs and the outer surface of the hand. 

 Eut in Jahiit I saw no women tattooed on the faco, thougli such 

 women are met with in New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, and 

 New Hebrides ; nor did I see in the island tattooing of the entire 

 body, as is sometimes the case with girls or women in Ontong 

 Java and New Guinea. ^ In the East Caroline and Marshall groups, 

 it is usual that the men tattoo more extensively than the women, 

 as in a part of Polynesia. In New Gninea, on the contrary, the 

 women are more tattooed than the men. In some tribes of the 

 island, tattooing is ahnest limited to the women. 



In Truk, the natives use fish bones as needles for tattooing, 

 and lampblack as pigment. But in Ponapé needles obtained from 

 human bone are employed for tattooing the elaborate designs on 

 arms, thighs, and legs.^ In Yap, the needles are made of the 

 bone of water fowls, as is described later on. In the Sandwich 

 Islands,-^ tlicy use an instrament about a quarter of an inch wide 

 with a number of small fish bones, as in Truk. According to G. 

 Turner,* the instrument for tattooing in Samoa is an oblong piece 

 of human bone (os ilium), about an inch and a half broad and 

 two inches long, cut like a small-toothed comb at one end. Times 

 of war a] id slaughter were harvests for providing tattooers with 

 material. The colour used is candle-nut ashes mixed with water. 



1 C. G. Seligmann, "The Melaneiians of British New Gninea," pp. 73-75, 264, 265; Pis. 

 X, XI. XXXVin. O. Finsch, " Samoafahrten," pp. 277, 278. W. Y. Turner, "The Ethnology 

 of the Motu," Jour. .4nthr. Inst., VII, 1878, pp. 480, 481. K. E. (inise, " On the Tribe.s inhabit- 

 ing the mouth of the Wanigela Eiver, New Guinea," Jour. Authr. Inst., XXVIII, 1899, p. 207. 

 R. W. Williamson, " Some unrecorded ciistoms of the Mekeo Peojjle of British New Guinea," 

 ..Tour. Anthr. Inst., XLIII, 1913, p. 269. H. N. Moseley, " On the Inhabitants of the Admiralty 

 Islands, etc.," Jour. Anthr. Inst., VI, 1877, p. 401. E. Parkinson, "Zur Ethnographie der Ong- 

 tong Java und Tasman-Inseln," Intern. Ar.-h. f. Ethnog., X. 1897, Taf. VIH. G. Turner, 

 " Famoa," p. 329. 



2 F. W. Christian, "The C.iroline Islands," p- 130. 



3 W. Ellis, "Hawaii," p. 170. 

 * G. Turner, "Samoa," p. 89. 



