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witli in Truk, both in shape and in other respects. For particulars 

 see Pcirt II, The West CaroUne Islands. 



In all the Islands, most women wear the hair parted in the 

 middle, letting it fall on tlie back or having it bound up at the 

 back of the head (PI. IV ; PL XII, fig. 1 ; PL XIII, fig. 2 ; PI. 

 XVII, fig. 1). Some of the women in Kusaie have their hair 

 dressed in a more or less complex fashion, which they have 

 perhaps learned from Europeans (PL XV). On the head they 

 sometimes have a simple wreatli of flowers {Gudtarda speciosa ; 

 Caesaljyinla pulcherrima) or leaves {Pohjpodium sp. ; Pteris sp.) 

 (PL XXXIV, figs. 1 and 7 ; PL IV, fig. 2). Some of the men 

 also wear such wreaths, but mostly only when they dance (Figs. 

 7 and 11). 



The wreath serves not only as a head-dress, but is also 

 usod as a neck- 

 lace (Fig. 7). 

 The wreath is 

 an ornament 

 mach favoured 

 by the natives 

 of Hawaii also. 

 TJioy wear it 

 on the head or 

 round the neck. 

 Cliildren under 

 eight or nine 

 years of age 

 are said to go 

 without cloth- 

 ing, when they 



Kig. 8. — Niitivus of Kiisaiu. (I'huiu. U. !Mori.) 



