^g Art. VIL— A. Mfitsnmura: 



scrapes the paste from his teeth, which have now become a dark 

 brown black." ^ 



3. Tattooing in General. — As noted in Part I, cicatrization and 

 tattooing proper come nnder this head, the latter being most 

 frequently met with in the West Caroline Islands. 



A. Cicatrization. — This is not so widely practised in the West 

 Caroline Islands as in Ponapé, so far as my observation goes. 

 Bat in Palau I saw natives of middle age, both male and female, 

 with cicatrices. On the top of their upper arms the women had 

 bits of parallel oblique lines, dots about the size of red beans, or 

 raised cuts with the pattern >C . Tlie patterns on both arms were 

 not necessarily the same. It is said that this custom did not 

 originally exist in Palau, but was introduced into the islands by 

 the settlers from Ponapé, though this cannot be accepted without 

 reservation. 



B. Tattooing. — The custom of tattooing prevails in Yap and 

 Palau as in the East Caroline Islands, but the practice is falling into 

 desuetude, especially in Yap where, if at all, only the four limbs 

 are tattooed. Though an old man whom I saw in Yap had tattoo 

 marks all over his body with the exception of the face, such instances 



, are very rare and the practice will in all probability disappear from 

 the island before long. W. 11. Furness gives an instance like the 

 native just mentioned, in a plate of his book entitled " The Islands 

 of Stone Money." Plere the body, except the face, forearms and 

 hands, are all covered with thick horizontal or longitudinal lines. 

 The tattooing on this scale is also practised among the men of 

 Sonsol, an island lying south-west of Palau.^ The natives of 

 Ponapé and Jaluit tattoo less 'extensively ; neither do the inhabitants 



1 C. G. Seligmann, "The Melanesians of British New Guinea," p. 492. 



2 J. S. Kubary, " Ethnographische Beitrüge zur Kenntnis des Karolinen Archipels," p. 89 ; 

 Taf. XI. 



