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found. In Yap, bracelets made of various materials are used ; 

 it seems, however, that the men prefer those of tortoise-shell. Both 

 in Palau and Yap, bracelets are worn on the left forearm, most 

 of the natives wearing several (PI. XX ; PI. XXI, fig, 1). They 

 are invariably worn on the left arm, not on the right, probably 

 for convenienoe' sake. This may also be observed in Du!ch New 

 Guinea and elsewhere. ^ 



The shell bracelets used by the natives are well polished rings 

 obtained by cutting crosswise a certain part of the Troclius niloticiis, 

 showing fine workmanship (Fig. 45). Bracelets made of a certain 

 shell are employed in New Guinea and other Melanesian regions 

 also. They are much prized among the natives of these islands, 

 sometimes so much so that they pass as currency or are even 

 used in buying a wife.^ There are two different forms of brace- 

 lets obtained from coconut shell. One is 

 a rins: like that formed bv cutting a 

 bamboo tube crosswise, and has parallel 

 lines carved on the surface as ornament 

 (Fig. 40). The other consists of a slice 

 as if obtained from the section of a ball, 

 and has no ornament. The inner dia- 

 meter of both measured from 52 to 53 

 mm. The tortoise-shell bracelet is of tlie 



Fig. 4B. — Shell bracelet, Yap. 



same make and form as that worn in Truk. 



The natives of Tanna, one of the New Hebrides, wear bracelets 



of coconut shell, from two to six in number, above their elbow, 



1 G. A. J. Van der Sande, " Nova Gviinea, III. Ethnog. and Anthr.," p. 103. 



2 W. Y. Turner, " The Ethnology of the Motu," Jour. Anthr. Inst., VII, 1878, p. 479. A. C. 

 Haddon, "The Ethnography of the Western Tribes of Torres Straits," Jour. Anthr. In.st., XIX, 

 1890, p. 339. H. N. Moseley, "On the Inhabitants of the Admiralty Islands, etc." Jour. Anthr. 

 Inst., VI, 1877, p. 400. B. T. Somerville, " Ethnog. Notes in New Georgia, Solomon Islands," 

 Jour. Anthr. Inst., XXVI, 1897, p. 364. 



