152 ARTHUR WILLEY. 
6. Miscellaneous.—In New Hanover and New Ireland 
the Nautilus shell is called “ Togol,”’ and is used as a decoration 
on the outriggers of the canoes and on the houses, and also as 
a drinking vessel and for baling out canoes. Occasionally the 
Fic. 8.—N. pompilius, ¢. Similar view as in Fig. B, to show the 
siphuncular artery arising from the left of the two main branches of the 
posterior pallial artery. Letters as in Fig. B. 
shell of Nautilus umbilicatus is obtained, and the new- 
comer then acquires the useful information that that is the 
male of the Nautilus! This seems to be the idea of the 
Kanakas as well as of the outlying white men. 
In N ew Hanover, where primitive institutions still largely 
flourish undisturbed (including cannibalism), a curious custom 
prevails, of which I became aware while engaged in collecting 
finger-prints. The natives employ the cheiromantic creases 
for the purpose of creating factitious social groups or families, 
within the limits of which marriage is tabooed. They trace a 
fancied resemblance between the creases of the hand and the 
