106 Art. Vir.— A. Matsumura: 



and the fee for tattooing on both arms is said to be worth several 

 shiUings. Likewise, the operators in Ongtong Java are women 

 whose business is said to be hereditary.^ In British New Guinea 

 too, there are old women skilled in the art.^ 



4. Nose-deforming. — N. von Miklucho-Maclay writes that among 

 the natives of Yap a custom prevails of deforming their noses. 

 To quote this writer, " an Neugeborenen wird während der ersten 

 Monate das Zerquetschen der Nase vorgenommen, was mit einer 

 über dem Feuer gewärmten Hand von der Mutter oder von irgend 

 einem anderen Weibe gemacht wird."^ Inquiring of the natives 

 about it, I found that they knew nothing about the custom. 

 Probably the custom is a local one, or it may have since dis- 

 appeared, for Miklucho-Maclay visited Yap some forty years ago. 

 Again, he says (p. 107 and PL XI) that the islanders of Palau 

 have longitudinal wrinkles produced on their noses, though the 

 custom of nose-deforming does not exist among them. At any 

 rate, the practice of deforming the nose is met with among the 

 natives of Tahiti. 



5. Beard-plucking. — According to Captain Wilson, " they in 

 general plucked out their beard by the root ; a very few only, 

 who had strong thick, beards, cherished them and let them grow."* 

 As may be seen from our plates, however, the men in Palau 

 above 45 years of age wear beards, and, for instance, Aybathul, 

 " king " of the islands, has a beautiful grey beard (PL XXV). 



1 R. PiirkinsoD, " Zur Ethnographie der Ongtong Java und Tasman Inseln," Intern, f. 

 Ethnog., X, 1897, p. 140. 



- C. G. Seligmann, " The Melanesians of British New Guinea," p. 265. A. C. Haddon, 

 " The Decorative Art of British New Guinea," p. 178. W. Y. Turner, " The Ethnology of the 

 Motu," Jour. Anthr. Inst,, VII, 1878, p. 481. A. C. English, " Annual Eeport of British New 

 Guinea, 1894," quoted by Haddon, " Tatuing at Hula, British New Guinea," Man, V, 1905, 53. 



3 N. von Miklucho-Maclay, " Anthr. Notizen, gesammelt auf einer Heise in West-Mikronesien 

 und Nord-Melanesien in Jahre 1876," Verh. d. Berlin. Gesell, f. Anthr., 1878, p. 105. 



« G. Keate, " The Pelew Islands," p. 27. 



