AsraHaAmM—On a Model of a Human Face. 81 
on board all over with engine-room oil-paint, yellow and green, in 
stripes and various facetious designs, were delighted.” Mr. Moseley 
further says that ‘‘the skulls of turtles suspended in the temples are 
ornamented with patterns painted in those usual colours. The human 
skulls are likewise decorated, and some have eyes of pearl-shell in- 
serted into the orbits on a background of black clay.” 
It is not clear whether it is their friends or their fallen enemies 
who are thus decorated by the Melanesians. It seems rather un- 
likely that an enemy’s face should be beautified in the highest style 
of the prevailing art; moreover, I have been recently informed by a 
medical man who has travelled in those parts, that these representa- 
tions of the human countenance are held in the greatest respect. I 
am therefore inclined to the belief that it is in this manner that the 
memory of distinguished friends is perpetuated. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE. 
PLATE III. 
Model of a Human Face, from an Island near the Eastern Coast of New Guinea. 
