94 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ANATOMICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL 



Five skulls are further decorated in a curious way Nos. 3, 5, 6, 

 8 and 13. They have been fashioned so as to represent a very 

 grotesque human face (Plate V., Fig. 2), the facial region being 

 covered with a substance consisting of a mixture of hardened clay 

 and resinous material. The orbits are filled up with this material 

 and eyes are indicated by embedding something in their position ; in 

 a few cases, a ring of white siliceous seeds. A straight nose, four to 

 five inches long, is formed on a framework, consisting of a cane loop, 

 secured in the nasal aperture. In addition, these faces are smeared 

 with bands of red and black paint. All our specimens are incomplete 

 in some of these details. 



Five of the skulls (Nos. 1, 9, 10, 11 and 12) have a plaited fibrous 

 band over a yard long attached by its ends to the zygomatic arches. 

 In No. 1 this band is studded with cowrie shells arranged in a zig- 

 zag fashion (Plate V., Fig. 3), and in No. 9 it consists of a strip of 

 bark. 



Three of the skulls are distinguished from the others by their 

 very elaborate ornamentation. These are the three that were ob- 

 tained at the Bamu river Nos. 10, 11 and 12 (Plates VI, VII.). In 

 the case of these, the base of the skull, both temporal fossae and the 

 facial region are covered with the same claylike substance. From 

 each orbit protrudes a hornlike body, five to six inches long, rounded, 

 averaging over one inch in thickness, diverging from the one on the 

 opposite side, and having a large flat red seed embedded on its blunt 

 apex. These protrusions obviously give the appearance of stalked 

 eyes ; they have fallen out from skull No. 11. 



A wooden ring flattened laterally is attached to the front of the 

 face by a projection thrust into the anterior nasal aperture. A similar 

 ring is present in skull No. 9. In No. 10 it has evidently been 

 present but has fallen out. These rings are elliptical in shape and 

 vary in si/e. In No. 12, which possesses the largest one, it measures 

 It indies in its longest diameter. More or less simple geometrical 

 designs are carved on the flat sides of the rings. In No. 12 the ring 

 is further decorated, several greyish feathers being inserted by their 



