EXPLANATION OF PLATE IL 



1. Fly Itrunh consistiii'; of strips of I'aiKlanuH 



leaves secured to a wooden handle by a 

 lashing of rattan. 



2. Food tray of wood. 

 8. Fiber of Gnetum edule, from whieli the pulp 



has been removed V)y scraping the bark 

 with a Cyrena shell. 



4. Adz (modern) made of iron o])tained from 



the keel i)late of a vessel. Shells were 

 formerly used, l)ut stones were never used 

 by the Andamanese for celts. 



5. Torcli, made by women, of resin wrapped in 



an Amaryllis leaf (Cnnun; lorifollum). 



6. 7. Bamboo knives made by hardening the 



strips with fire and sharpening the edges 

 with a Cyrena shell. 



8. Bamboo skewer with shells attached. 



9. Red wax, made by men, of red oxide of iron, 



resin obtained from a tree (Celtis?), and 

 white beeswax; used to form a protective 

 coating over seizings of arrowheads, har- 

 poons, etc.; for ornamenting food trays, 

 buckets, and belts, and sometimes for 

 closing the seams of canoes and cracks in wooden buckets. 



10. Pinna shell knives, now seldom used, their place having been taken l)y iron 



obtained from hoops, plates from vessels, etc. 



11. Skewer attached to iron knife. 



12. Cyrena shells, the edge sharpened, and used for cutting, carving, and for smooth- 



ing bows and arrows. 



13. Boar's tusk, the inner edge of which has })een sharpened with a Cyrena shell. 



Used for planing bows, arrows, and paddles. 



14. Torch of resinous wood, from decayed logs of Diplerocarpus hcvia. They do not 



burn so readily as the torch of resin (fig. 5) and are seldom used outside of 

 the huts. 



15. Fiber of Anndnidnm paiiiciildliDii, of which liowstrings, arrow fastenings, and net- 



tings are made. 



16. Woman's reticule, netted from fine string made of the fiber of Amxlnulroa jxtn- 



irnliiluin. 



17. Bamboo tongs. 



18. Bamboo water vessel. 



19. Sleeping mat, made of Calamus strips twined together with string twisted from 



the fiber of (liicium edule, and decorated with lines of red ocher and white 

 clay. 



20. Palm-leaf screen {Licuahi peltnlaf). 



21. Bucket made of the wood of SlercnUn. villosa, with a loop of cane to form the 



handle, made by means of an adz blade attached to a handle in the form of 

 a chisel; ornamented with longitudinal markings of red and white. 



22. Wrapped basket with conical bottom. 



23. Wicker basket with reentrant bottom. 



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