EXPLANATION OF PLATE 1. 



1. Fish skull, painted with red ocher, kept as 



a trophy. 



2. Belt, or waist circlet, of rattan. 

 8. Circlet of spiral shells on network, worn on 



the head or neck. 



4. Band of bark, worn over the shoulder, for 



carrying child. 



5. Necklace of shells {Hemicardlum uuedo) . 



6. Necklace of calyces of mangrove. 



7. Pig's skull, painted with red ocher and white 



clay, kept as a trophy. 



8. Human skull, painted with red ocher and 



white clay, and ornamented with Den- 

 talium shells, and with Hemicardium 

 and Solarium shells attached to the tem- 

 poral arches; worn in memoriain ])y a 

 relative of the deceased. 

 Sk, Human skull, suspended by cord of bark 

 fiber. 



10. duplet made of vertebrae of a half-grown 



child; worn on the head or about the 

 neck in memorktm by a relative of the 

 dece«ised. 



11. Human jawbone, worn like the preceding, 



ornamented by strings of Devialiuni odogommi. 



12. Human jawbone, jjainted, with red, ocher, and ornamented with Hemicardium 



shells; saspended by network of bark fiber. 



13. Circlet of turtle bones, worn about the head or neck. 



14. Circlet of vegetable fiber, worn on the head. 



15. Woman's belt, made of Pamluiuis amlamauenshun, the ends of the leaves form- 



ing four tufts, which are worn behind, the outside of the hoop ornamented 

 with transverse markings of red wax paint. Several belts are worn by each 

 woman. 



16. Tuft of leavcjj; of MiniiiHopx iiidira; worn by tlie women as an apron, held in 



piswe by tlie lowest belt. 



17. Wristlet made of leaves of Pundtmus (mdamanensimn. 



18. Wristlet, or bracelet, similar to the preceding, but ornamented with strings of 



Dentalium shells. 



19. Garter of Pandanus leaves, ornamented with Dentalium shells. 



20. Circlet, similar to the preceding. 



21. Stems of an orchid {Dendrobium sp. ), the yellow skin of which is used to orna- 



ment cords, and the seizings of pig-spear heads. 



22. Man's belt of Pandanus leaves, with two tufts, intended to hang down behind. 



23. Belt similar to the preceding, but having four tufts of Pandanus leaves. 



24. Man's garters of Pandanus leaves, made. like the preceding. 



25. Garter in the form of a flat hoop of Pandanus leaves, made like fig. 15, and 



ornamented in the same way. 



26. Man's l)elt, consisting of a fringe of Dentalium shells, coated with red ocher. 



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