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Plate XLI. 



Fig. 1. — Group of natives dressed for the Bcira dance and 

 holding boars' tusk ornaments in their teeth. 



Fig. 2. — A figure of the Bdra dance. 



Plate XLII. 



Fig. 1. — A Bdra dance; ready for the quick step which is 

 danced to the sound of the drums without singing. Tlie houses in the 

 background are decorated with "sausages" of sago, alid bunches 

 of bananas are seen hanging from posts erected along the street. 



Fig. 2. — Dancing the quick step of the Bdra. 



Plate XLIII. 



Fig, 1. — A Pantomime figure of the Bdra. 



Fig. 2. — Women decorated for the Damorea dance. (Photo- 

 graph taken in a Southern Massim village.) 



