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pandaniis; leaf. The roll for the men is three 

 inches in diameter, and for women, only half. 

 It is, sometimes, covered by a very thin plate of 

 tortoise-shell. Some older people had, besides, 

 pierced the upper edge of the ear, to put flowers 

 through it. 



The skilful, elegant tattooing * differs according 

 to the sex ; in each it is uniform. For the men it 

 forms over the shoulder and breast a triangle point- 

 ed to the navel, which consists of several variously 

 combined stripes : similar well-disposed horizontal 

 stripes occupy the back and the stomach. With 

 the women only the arms and the shoulders are 

 tattooed. Besides this regular designing, which is 

 only executed when they grow up, and is wanting 

 in very few, they have all, when children, groups 

 of designs or stripes tattooed over their hips and 

 arms, but more seldom in the face. Among these 

 drawings we sometimes observed the figure of the 

 Roman cross, t The place tattooed is very dark, 

 drawn sharply and raised above the skin. 



The dress of the men consists in a girdle with 

 bast strips hanging down, to which is often added 



* In the spring of 1816 we overlooked this tattooing in 

 Udiruk (Kutosoff's islands.) 



f Natives of the Mulgrave islands who went on board the 

 Charlotte had a cross suspended from their neck, after thecus- 

 tom of the Spaniards. We did not meet with this ornament in 

 Radack, and endeavoured in vain to discover in the mark men- 

 tioned any relation to Christians and Europeans. 



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