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come from the Trobriands and Woodlark Island, and they are 

 also manufactured by the Southern Massim. The other form of 

 wooden platter, called in Mailu Ahoma, is oblong, and may be 

 described as boat-shaped. They are sometimes manufactured 

 locally, but their real home seems to be Hood Bay, where they 

 are made by the Kerejnhia. They are also used by the Motu 

 of Hamiahada, who, however, do not themselves make them, 

 Ibut trade them from the Hood Bay natives. Their Motu name 



Fig. 20. Oblong Wooden Dish (Ahoma). 



is Diliii.'''^^^ (See pi. xxxii., figs. 1 and 2, where Aho/nas of an 

 exceptionally large size are shown). 



The baskets, called jVo'oboea, used at times for dishing-up 

 solid food, are rather roughly made of plaited coconut palm 

 leaf (comp. chap, iv., sec. 7). 



The solid food is eaten with the fingers, or, if it is hot 

 or bulky, with one-pronged forks, made either of wood or of 

 a, pointed wallaby bone. ^25) 



The liquid obtained by boil- 

 ing, called Ri2i (in Motu, 

 Vdsiahuj, is ladled out of the 

 pot by means of the Bio. This is 

 the half of a coconut shell, with 

 all the soft material removed from 

 both the outside and inside, and 

 sometimes with the brim serrated 

 by way of ornamentation. There 

 ^^ • is also a slight prominence on one 



Halved Coconut Shell, Bio, ^^^ ^f ^^le rim, which serves as 



used as a spoon. j-_ j. i ji 



^ a rudimentary handle. 



In the second form of cooking (called Gcibu-gdhu ; in 

 Motu, Gdhua) the food is roasted over the fire or placed in 

 liot ashes. 



(24) The circular wooden dishes do not reach as far as Hanuahada, 

 where their place is taken by the round earthenAvare plates called 

 j£i6o, or, if larger, Nd^u, which are manufactured locally. 



(25) T did not make a note of the Mailu names for forks. In 

 Motu the bone fork is called Dimga and the wooden one Neho. 



