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longitudinal ridge, but without any attempt at a bridge ; its tip is 
blunt and rounded, and situated high up; the septum elongated, pro- 
minent and rather thick; and the nares are large and wide, and look 
more forwards than downwards. The dimensions of this curious repre- 
sentation of a nasal organ are:—Extreme length from the ‘‘nasion,”’ 
or ‘‘nasal point,” to lowest part of septum, 53 mm.; from centre of 
blunt apex to bottom of septum, 23 mm.; greatest width across nares, 
34mm.; thickness of septum, 5mm. There is no attempt to fashion 
lips, the dental alveoli, which are partially filled up and blackened, 
being quite superficial. The teeth have been all extracted; and, as 
the alveolar margins of the upper and lower jaws have not been 
brought into contact, the mouth has the appearance of being partly 
open. The eyeballs are constructed out of dark-green opercula, painted 
white around the margin so as to leave transversly oval pupils. 
Although much cracked across and rubbed, enough of the ornamen- 
tation of the face remains to show that it has been very elaborate. 
The whole surface seems to have been first smeared with white lime, 
and then to have had the colouring so laid on as to produce a symme- 
trically alternating pattern. Over the orbits are broad sub-triangular, 
or rather semi-crescentic, patches meeting above in the middle line, 
the right one red, the left black; the eyebrows themselves seem to 
have been the right black and the left red. Within the orbits a red 
line encircles the right, a black the left eye; below, occupying the 
front of each cheek, are the remains of a large triangular patch, black 
on the right side, and red on the left. Red and black patches, right 
and left respectively, are upon the chin; and beneath these again are 
narrow black and red lines. The nose shows traces of having been red. 
The decoration is completed by a light-brown beard, formed of 
some vegetable fibre, 3 to 4 cm. long, arranged in a row of close tufts, 
standing out radially from the lower part of the face; and by a head- 
dress formed of white grebe feathers, and extending upwards from the 
beard around the face. As may be inferred from this description, the 
pantaloon-like tout-ensemble of the specimen is very striking. 
It appears that this parti-colouration, and use of the three colours 
red, black, and white, is not considered unfashionable amongst the 
more esthetically inclined natives of New Guinea and the neighbour- 
ing islands. Thus, according to Dr. Comrie (‘‘ Anthropological Notes 
on New Guinea,”—Journ. of Anthrop. Inst.), some of the inhabitants 
have ordinarily their faces decorated by a few streaks of red and white 
paint. Again, Mr. Moseley says, in his interesting Paper on the in- 
habitants of the Admiralty Islands :—‘‘ The male natives occasionally 
had their chests and faces reddened with a burnt red clay. Sometimes 
one lateral half of the face is reddened, the other being left uncoloured. 
When vermilion was given to the natives, they put it on cleverly and 
symmetrically in curved lines leading from the nose under each eye, 
showing that they understood how to use it with effect. No doubt 
they paint themselves elaborately on festive occasions, In war, &e. 
They were fond of being painted, and two natives who were painted 
