110 Art. Vn.— A. Matsumura: 



SO it is easy to distinguish them from the inhabitants of Truk 

 and Ponapé, etc. (Pis. XX, XXV). 



Women in Yap and Palau dress their hair by roUing it up as 

 in the East CaroUne Islands. In Yap they part their hair in the 

 middle and gather it up on the lower part of the back of the head ; 

 while in Palau they bind their hair, which is grown long, on the 

 upper part of the occiput without dividing it (Pis. XXI, XXVI). 



In the West Caroline group, the men wear a large comb as 

 in Truk. The combs used in tlie former show a more or less 

 large difference in their shape and make, as compared with those 

 employed in Truk. There is even a difference in this respect be- 

 tween the articles found in Palau and Yap, both of the West 

 Caroline group. The comb used by the men in Yap consists of 

 more than ten strips of aerial roots (?), cut slender and flat, of a 

 variety of the mangrove. These strips are drawn together in two 

 or three places at the part forming the handle ; and this by means 

 of wooden nails (Fig. 40, e and /), or by lashings of coconut or 

 other fibres (Fig. 40, a-d), which is for the double purpose cf 

 ornament and practical use. In Yap the comb bound by lashings 

 is most common. The strips are thickest at the part drawn to- 

 gether and thinner toward the upper end. The teeth spread outward, 

 so that the whole thing resembles the shape of a fan. On the struc- 

 ture of tlie comb W. H. Furness says : " It is made merely of 

 fifteen or twenty narrow strips of bamboo, about eight inches long, 

 sharpened at one end, with shorter, slightly wedge-shaped pieces 

 inserted between each strip four or five inches from the sharpened 

 ends, whereby the teeth of the comb are kept apart ; the upper 

 ends are now bound together with ornamental lashings of coconut 

 fibre." ^ But of the eleven combs we collected in Yap, none is 



1 W. H. Furness, " The Island of Stone Money," p. 57. 



