Explanation of Plate XXI. 



Fi^ 1. — Three women and two cliiklreu near Toinil, Yap. Eacli «tf the 

 women has a neck ornament made of hibiscus bast dyed black. 

 Every woman and marriageable girls must wear this ornament, the 

 lack of wliich is considered disgraceful. The women in this fii^ure 

 liav^e large petticoats made of coco-tree leaves. Little girls, cirricd 

 in their mothers' arms, must also wear the same kind of petticoat 

 They wear sev^eral rings of shell and coconut shell on their arms. 



Eig. 2. — Woman from Yap. 



