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or forwards, alternately left and right, on a 



cord plaited of four strands (fig. 12). In 



estimating the beauty of such a necklace, it 



should be remembered that it is designed not 



to contrast with a white skin, where its effect 



would be displeasing, but against a brown Fig. 12. - 



one, where it is in chromatic harmony. 



Models were made for me on Funafuti of a pair of dance orna- 

 ments, "lilima,"(fig. 13) such as were worn in "the old days." Each 



Fig. 13. 



armlet is composed of three pandanus leaf ribbons, two feet long, 

 super-imposed one upon another, except above, where the lower 

 projects beyond the upper. The uppermost is reddened with 

 nonou, the second blackened with tar, and the third retains its 

 natural yellow. The red leaf is crinkled* with transverse creases 

 an inch and a half apart. Near the upper end the leaves are 

 gathered with a bow of ornamental cord, on which is strung a 

 button of white shell, Natica mamilla the ribbons are further 

 surmounted by a tuft of palm pinnules upon which is arranged a 

 fold of the bow of the cord. The cord is segmented black and 

 yellow, consisting of a strand of human hair laid up with a strand 

 of bark thread, f The whole has a tasteful effect. It was worn, 

 said the maker, by tying the strings round the biceps of the arm. 



Head-dresses were formerly made of the Frigate bird plumes, \ 

 but of these I failed to procure either specimens or models. A 

 pandanus leaf head-dress is figured by Wilkes, the Funafuti native 

 wearing it also sports an ankle-ring. 



On Nukufetau the American Exploring Expedition observed a 

 coconut leaflet tied round the necks of some men (ante p. 27). 

 On Fotuna this was a mark of rank.|| An illustration of a king 

 of Fakaafu shows him thus adorned. 51 



* On Ponape, the dress of chiefs is pandanus leaves crimped. Brigham 

 loc. cit., iii., p. 49. 



t This kind of cord is used in some of the New Ireland dance masks in 

 the Australian Museum. 



t Gill Jottings from the Pacific, 1885, p. 17. 



Wilkes loc. cit., p. 41. 



|| Journ. Polyn. Soc., L, pp. 41, 42. 



IT Journ. Anthrop. Inst., xxi., 1892, pi. iii., fig. 1. 



