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7. Anklets. — The anklet is not so common as the bracelet. 

 In Yap, we sometimes find men with pieces of cloth or cords of 

 coconut fibre wound round their ankles, as if they had had wounds 

 dressed. An anklet of this kind, which certainly makes no great 

 ornament, may yet be regarded as a sort of ornament for the leg 

 (PI. XX, fig. 2). Among the Motu tribe of New Guinea a custom 

 of winding the knees or ankles with cords or pieces of bark is 

 met with.i This is only an instance, the practice prevaihng among 

 other tribes too. 



The natives, young and old, men and women, and from kings 

 downward, wear no sort of footgear. This is true of the inhabit- 

 ants of the East and West Carolines, and of the Marshall Islands, 

 with the exception of the Chamorro tribe who wear sandals made 

 of hides. 



Chapter II. 



Food and Other Articles. 

 I. Food and Drink. 



The bread-fruit tree does not thri\-e in Yap and Palau, so far 

 as my observation goes, so well as in the East Carolines. The 

 taro, not bread-fruit, seems to be the staple food of the natives. 

 Of course, Truk and other islands yield the taro, but in the West 

 Caroline group we find the vegetable grown over a large area. 

 It is the women, we are told, who attend to its cultivation. There 

 are also the coconut, sweet potato, yam and bread-fruit which 



1 W. Y. Turner, " The Ethnology of the Motu," Jour. Anthr. Inst., VIl, 1878, p. 480. 



