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With better opportunities it would have undoubtedly been 

 possible to obtain more complete information, but these are 

 often a matter of good luck in ethnological field work. On 

 the whole, I think that the art of healing does not play a very 

 important part in the tribal life of the Mailu natives, just as 

 their sorcery and magic, to which native medicine is so akin, 

 are also not very highly developed. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 



Plate XXVI. 



Map (facing page 503) showing Mailu, or Toulon, Island and 

 adjacent coast of Papua. 



Plate XXVII. 



Fig. 1. — Village of Mailu seen from the north-west. 

 Fig. 2. — Village of Mailu seen from the east. 



Plate XXVIII. 



Fig. 1. — Scene on Mailu beach showing a double caroe 

 (Oro'u) which has been temporarily converted into a house-boat. 



Fig. 2. — A section of the village of Boreho seen from the sea. 



Plate XXIX. 



Fig. 1. — The village street in Mailu looking westwards. The 

 houses seen here belong to the clans Maradiihu and Mordu. Some 

 of them are decorated with rows of sago bundles which? in view 

 of the approaching feast, hang under the thatch eaves. 



Fig. 2. — Western end of Borebo village, showing the Diibu 

 standing in its characteristic position in the middle of the street. 



Plate XXX. 



Fig. 1. — Front view of a house in Mailu, showing the typical 

 manner in which the natives occupy verandahs, or lower floor of 

 the house. 



Fig. 2. — Side view of a native house. In front a row of girls 

 in their gala petticoats. 



Plate XXXI. 



Fig. L — Group of men in gala dress and decorated for the 

 Bcira dance. 



Fig. 2. — AVoman in mourning petticoat. 



Plate XXXII. 

 Fig. 1. — A man squeezing coconut shavings for making coco- 

 nut cream fGorogoroJ. He has moved into the middle of the 

 street for the convenience of the photographer. 



Fig. 2. — Boiling of sago for a small feast. Men are stirring 

 the contents of the pots with long wooden spoons. A temporary 



