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1)9 pointed out subsequently, when describing the different 

 customs and institutions. 



In order to make clear subsequent allusions to the various 

 tribes, I shall give a brief outline of the anthropogeography 

 cf the Massim tribes of the Southern Coast. 



The Western boundary runs, as we know, through the 

 village of Gadahiu, just at the centre of Orangerie Bay. The 

 eastern half of the bay, the island of Bonahona, at the entrance 

 to Mullins Harbour, and the southern shores of that harbour 

 are inhabited by people who are said to speak the same dialect. 

 They are known by the generic names of Dahuni or Bonahona. 

 From the entrance of Mullins Harbour to Farm Bay live a 

 people almost identical with the former, but said to speak a 

 slightly different dialect. Their collective name seems to be 

 Dau' tii. They have the same type of irregularly built village 

 as the other Massim. Scattered over a large area, amid 

 coconut palms and gardens, they are composed of what Dr. 

 Seligman calls "hamlets" — i.e., small groups of houses: a 

 number, sometimes twenty or more, of such hamlets compose a 

 large village. W 



These natives also build the same kind of house as the 

 other Southern Massim, and the resemblance extends to the 

 internal arrangements, household implements, decorations, etc. 



The line of demarcation running through the western end 

 of Farm Bay is, however, important, since it is the boundary 

 of cannibalism en the south-eastern coast of New Guinea. 

 The first village in Farm Bay, Savdia, was the first Southern 

 Massim village in which anthropophagy was practised. I have 

 inquired carefully into this matter on both sides of the divid- 

 ing line, and a thorough agreement between a great number 

 of independent informants leaves no doubt as to this anthropo- 

 geographical boundary. The natives of Farm Bay, of Sud'u 

 Island, and of the mainland coast as far as the Bay of Modeva, 

 speak the same dialect, and they can be called the Sud'u, by 

 which name they would also be best known to other natives. 

 The last Sud'u village to the east in Modeva Bay is called 

 Nuria. 



The next groups of Southern Massim, also speaking a 

 slightly different dialect, are the Rogea and Sdriha peoples, 

 inhabiting the two islands of that name and the extreme end 

 of the southern coast. Their first village on the coast is called 

 Guavili. Another group is formed by the Milne Bay people, 

 generically called Tavdra, which is the native name of the bay. 

 With these we arrive at the Southern Massim area, comprised 

 in Prof. Seligman's description, to which the reader is referred. 



(v)Comp. Seligman, op. cit., chap, xxxiv., for a detailed 

 •description of the Southern Massim village system. 



