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A CENTRAL AISLE OF A RAVI AT URAMA, GULF OF PAPUA. 



This picture illustrates the cubicles on each side of the building, with the skull-racks 

 and properties hung upon the walls. It is constructed upon piles above the mud, and 

 the water flows beneath it at high tide. The floor-boards are the bark of the Goru 

 palm and the building consists of a frame-work of saplings thatched with leaves of 

 the sago palm. Men alone are permitted to enter, it being considered that sickness 

 would befall any women who were to gaze upon the sacred kaiva-kuku masks before 



the appointed time. 



[Flashliixht Photo.— Captciiii Praia- Hurley. 



