ETHNOLOGY HEDLEY. 



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The subject I examined, Sami, an old white-haired man, was 

 one of the few tatooed survivors. The tatooing (figs. 1, 2, and 3), 



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Fig. 1. 



Fig. 2. 



was confined to the smooth inner surfaces of the arms and the 



sides of the body, so that when he faced me " at attention " with 



the arms close to the trunk, his tatoo- 



ing was scarcely visible. The arms 



were tatooed from three inches above 



the wrist to two inches below the 



armpit. On the back the tatooed 



areas extended in triangles from a 



point in the lumbar region, two inches 



from the spine, upwards to the armpit 



and horizontally round the waist. The 



pattern is carried under the arm to 



a point in front an inch beneath the 



nipple of the breast, then vertically 



downwards till a right angle is 



formed by the junction of the waist- 



line. 



DRESS. 



Fig. 3. 



The old-fashioned kilt dress of Polynesia is still made and used 

 on Funafuti. It is, however, like most native articles, in process 

 of decadence, being only worn by the poorer people or by those 



