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Art. Vil. — A aiii'-sumura ; 



the Anthropological Institute of tlio Tokyo Imperial University. 



Of these necklaces, the varieties made of shells or tortoise- 

 shell are most favoured by the natives. As they are much prized, 

 foreigners import ornaments made in imitation of them, and the 

 natives sometimes wear them, but they can, of course, distinguish 

 between genuine and imitation ornaments. 



3. Breast Ornaments. — The necklace is not 

 necessarily fixed close to the neck. To make 

 the one described above look more beautiful, 

 it is often let down to the breast. In this 

 case, the necklaces hanging down form breast 

 ornaments. Some natives decorate their breasts 

 with ornaments having a disk-shaped pendant ^em^l^t m,^el!nortoii 

 of some 110 mm. in diameter made of tortoise- «i^t^i, Tmk. 



shell, hanging from the neck (Fig. 10). There are very few 

 islanders who wear them, since they are very difhcult to obtain. 



4. Clothing. — The manners and customs in the islands have 

 beeu Euro[)eauized to such an extent that there are scarcely any 

 who do not now wear shirts or trousers. The tendency of Europe- 

 anization in clothes is more marked in women than in men. Tlie 

 women, without difference of age, like to wear clothes which are 

 made of white, red, blue or striped cloth and similar in shape 

 to the clothes worn by women in the West. However, we may 

 s'ill observe in the islands natives going with nothing on except- 

 ing a loin-cloth. In the island of Saipan, there are not a few 

 women who go half naked (PI. XXXII). The clothes worn by the 

 islanders of Truk perhaps follow in the order of simphcity. The 

 men and women alike take a rectangular piece of cloth, and making 

 a narrow cut in the middle of the piece, put their heads through 

 the opening and let the cloth fall before and behind the body 



