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l-arts of the body where there is a depressed surface, above a 

 bony projection or a muscular protuberance, such as the neck, 

 waist, wrists, and ankles. They consist of head-dress, necklaces, 

 belts, armlets and anklets, from which hats and complex clothes 

 nny be derived. Description will be given below of the various 

 kinds of this adornment as found among the natives of the East 

 Caroline group. I have, however, included hair-dressing under the 

 ornaments for the head, though dressing the hair in various ways 

 and wearing ornaments on it appears not much different from a 

 partial mutilation of the body. 



1. Hair-dressing and Head Ornaments.— The hair is now worn short 

 by the men on all the islands, except Truk where some natives 

 wear it long. In this case, they simply let it hang or twist it 

 round the head or roll it on the l)ack of the head (PI. I, fig. 1 ; 

 PI. II ; PI. Ill, figs. 1 and 2). In bind- 

 ing the hair on the back of the head, 

 they sometimes use a fillet made of 

 coconut fibre (Fig. 5). On the hair thus 

 bound large combs of mangrove wood 

 are most frequently worn (PI. III). 



The combs differ as to shape and 

 size, but they may be classified into 

 two kinds according to style of struc- 

 ture. One is made of several narrow 

 strips of wood put together lengtliwise 

 and held fast at the part forming the 

 handle. The other is a long flat piece 

 of wood with several teeth cut length- 

 wise (Fig. and PI. XXXIV, figs. 5 and C). The former, again, 

 may be divided into three varieties. In A, wooden nails are used 



Pig 5.— Fillet made of cmumut 

 fibre, Truk. 



