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(in the form hlood-kakekakek) to violet paper. ^^ I suggest that it 

 is the equivalent, on the side of light, to dudu on the side of dark; 

 that is, that it means " light and inconspicuously colored." If I were 

 guessing at its derivation I should expect to find that the object 

 kakck is something of use and interest which is not easily found by 

 reason of its lightish, faded or washed-out color. The term "blood- 

 white " for violet would then be practically the same as the " little- 

 blood " already entered in my table. 



Cuttle is applied to black paper, dark gray paper, brown wool, na- 

 tive skin, blue paper, indigo paper, and violet paper and test wool. 

 Rivers translates the word by black ; he notes that the older men use 

 it for blue, and remarks on the fact that " intelligent natives should 

 regard it as perfectly natural to apply the same name to the brilliant 

 blue of sky and sea which they give to the deepest black. "^* The 

 thing is strange to us : but we must consider the native. In the first 

 place, we do not know whether the derivation of the word is present 

 to the native's mind. Rivers thinks that " newborn child color " 

 may simply mean " light " f^ 1 suppose that the specific reference to 

 the skin-color of the newly born has dropped away. Cuttle-color, 

 in the same way — especially since the word is an old one — may have 

 a general and not a specific meaning. What, then, in the second 

 place, may this meaning be? Rivers seems to derive it from the 

 inky secretion of the animal. But the word gole means, not cuttle 

 ink, but cuttlefish ; and it is characteristic of these animals that they 

 change color, chameleonwise, to suit the color of their surroundings.^" 

 May it not be that the thought in the native's mind, when he uses 

 the word gole, is " can't find him," " can't see him " ? (The chief of 

 Muralug called black by a word which another native translated as 

 "No, can't see him. "2^) And if this is the case, is it not natural 



33 The " violet test-wool " is apparently the relatively unsaturated violet 

 that Rivers used in his experiments on color-matching (R, 49). 



34 R, 55, 56, 66, 94. 

 3=^ R, 55, 56. 



36 R. Lydekker, " The New Natural History," VI., 327. The inky dis- 

 charge of the cuttle fish is also regarded as a "defensive reaction"; and 

 " cuttle ink " as well as " cuttle-fish " might suggest the thought " hard to 

 find." 



" R, 59- 



