34 • Art. VII —A. M.atsnmnni : 



wear a wreath.^ These facts show tliab tlicy make much of 

 these ornaments. 



In Ponapé, both men and women use a head-dress made of 

 cloth, which is not infrequently ornamented with disks of shells 

 or beads. Several specimens collected by the late Dr. Ukichi 

 Taguchi on the island in 1890 are now preserved in the Anthro- 

 pological Institute of tlie Tokyo Imperial University. 



The hair of the islanders, particularly of young women, is 

 always very lustrous, due to the use of coconut-oil. 



The men in Kusaie often wear hats, which are like Panana 

 hats in shape and are braided of leaves of the pandanus or the 

 coconut tree. Tlie women make tliese hats, some of which are 

 very finely braided (Fig. 8). In Truk and Ponapé, women wear 

 hats with pointed tops in fishing on reefs. 



2. Necklaces. — There are now only a few natives in Truk 

 who wear necklaces of native pattern. Most of them use imported 

 necklaces made of glass or China beads. The latter are frequent- 

 ly met with among the natives of Ponapé, Kusaie, and -Taluit. 

 The necklace of native pattern is made of dozens of shell disks, 

 which are strung on threads made of coconut fibres. The 

 colour of these disks is yellow tinged with red, and they are 

 from 10 to 15 mm. in diameter. As is shown in PI. XXXIV, 

 figs. 2 and 3, there are two different ways of stringing the disks 

 on the thread. As tlie same plate shows, the pendant obtahied 

 from tortoise-shell or more or less large sea-shells is attached to 

 the middle part of the tliread to enhance the beauty of the neck- 

 lace. The method of stringing the shells as illustrated in Pi. 

 XXXIV, fig. 3 may also be observed in the Kingsmill Islands. 



1 AV. A. Bryan, '■ Natural History of Hawaii. Being an Account of the Hawaiian Peaplw, 

 the Geology ...," Honolulu, Hawaii, 1915, p. 38. 



