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men, though there are occasional exceptions. In Samoa, for in- 

 stance, long combs made by binding twenty or thirty pieces of 

 the stems of coconut leaflets witli a string are worn by women in 

 the hair behind the ear for ornamental purposes.^ De Clercq and 

 Schmeltz^ say that in the territory of Waropen. Dutch New 

 Guinea, sometimes the exchange of C0Q)bs occurs between lovers. 

 It appears, therefore, that girls also wear combs. 



Though the comb is not now used in the islands of the East 



C'a roll ne group except in 

 Truk, we learn from 

 Christian^ that in Ponapé 

 it was formerly the 

 custom to wear combs 

 made in Yap styles of 

 white mangrove vrood. 

 Tlie wearing of combs 

 is still very common in 

 tlio West Caroline Is- 

 lands. Combs tied 

 together by strings are 

 common in Yap, wliile 

 in Palau those fasten- 

 ed with nails are most 

 frequently used. These 

 are, however, different 

 Fig. 7.— Native of huij.an (piiot.j. u. Mori.j ft'om tlio Variety met 



1 G. Turner. "Samoa," pp. 123, 171. 



2 F. S. A. de Clercç[ en J. D. E. Sclimeltz, " Etlinographist-he besclirijving van de Wes'.en 

 Koordhnst van Nederlandsch Kieuw-Guinea," I.eiden, 18)3, qnotetl by Van der Sande, "Nova 

 Guinea, III. Ethnog. and AntLr.," p. 68. 



a F. W. Christian, "The Carohne Islands," p. 129. 



