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men, women with babies strapped upon their backs, girls, and 



sundry children of both sexes ; 

 indeed, when hunting, the master 

 of the house appears to be at- 

 tended en masse by his whole 

 family. The men were sinewy 

 fellows of medium height, and by 

 no means attractive -looking, but 

 they did not seem to differ much 

 from some of the Nufoor people. 

 They were all armed with bows 

 and arrows, and long spears tipped 

 with cassowary or human bone or 

 hardened bamboo, and ornamented 

 with a tuft of cassowary feathers. 

 All the men wore the nose -bar, 

 and the usual Papuan ornaments 

 I have already described, but 

 their hair was dressed in a manner 

 we had not seen before either at 

 Dorei or in the islands. Instead 

 of the usual mop it was either 

 formed into three great tufts or 

 gathered circumferentially into 

 about a dozen bundles, which, 

 almost exactly resembling the 

 tassels of a window -blind, hung 

 down all round the head, one 

 alone projecting horn -like from 

 the crown. One individual wore 

 a frontlet composed of a double 

 row of dog's teeth, and several 

 had tlie long tail-feathers of the Epimachus stuck in their frizzly 

 hair. In the women the dress was reduced to a minimum, and 



NATIVE OF HATAM. 



