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Plate 26 



Tattoo designs, a, c, Marquesas Islander; 6, Samoau Islander. 



Plate 27 



Decorated human heads. Papuans of New Guinea. 



Plate 28 



Wood carver's art of the Papuans of the island of New Guinea. 



A tubular drum with aviform decorative embellishments in high relief. 

 Collected by B. W. Brandes. 



Plate 20 



A 2-pronged wooden hook with elongated conventionalized aviform decoration 

 in profile. Used in the men's dormitories of the New Guinea Papuans. 

 Collected by E. W. Brandes. 



Plate 30 



Wooden combs from the Papuans of New Guinea. The base of each comb has 

 etched designs in color depicting in a conventionalized manner birds and 

 other life forms. Collected by E. W. Brandes. 



Plate 31 



Tubular drum shells of carved wood, U.S.N.M. No. 344961. 



An aviform decorative embellishment carved in high relief from the solid 

 represents the hornbill. Other zoomorphie patterns, incised in flat relief, 

 tend to approach the double spiral of the Melanesians, and of the Maori of 

 New Zealand. Collected by B. W. Brandes at Ambunti, Territory of 

 Papua, British New Guinea. 



Plate 32 



Decorated objects of carved wood. Papuans of New Guinea. 



Figurines of carved wood, U.S.N.M. No. 334934, used in the young men's 

 dormitories of Papua, are excellent examples of Melanesian wood carver's 

 art Carving of human figurines and images in the round is general 

 among the peoples of the Pacific. Collected by B. W. Brandes from a 

 Papuan village located on a tributary of the Sepik River, British New 

 Guinea. 



Plate 33 



Decorated arrow shafts. Papuans of British New Guinea. 



The surface etchings are filled in with a white color, a decorative technlc 

 characteristic of Melanesia. The use of red ochres as a filler in incised 

 decorative work is also typically Melanesian and Papuan. 



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