6o 



Ka Han a Kapa. 



wrung, mara pnje inigaaidi^ hard b}' two women, standing opposite each other, holding 

 it lengthwise and then hung outside the house in the sun to dr}-. This entire manipula- 

 tion took place in the village itself, presumably because there is no very great safetj* 

 for the women in the forests, or because the men are not inclined to stay close b}-, as 

 in Central Celebes, ■"'' till the work is finished. 



KIG. 22. CHIEF'S CI.UAK FROM JABIN, NEW GUINEA. 



" I never saw the boiling in an earthenware pot with the addition of ashes, in 

 order to obtain a white colour, or a fermentation of the moist bark wrapped in leaves 

 of Livistonia ro/imdi/olia, as is reported from Celebes. The bark is lighter or darker 

 according to the kind of tree which supplied it ; this also holds good, as I was told b}^ 

 missionaries, for Geelvink Bay; both kinds are worn, whilst in Kaiser Wilhelms 

 Land only the lighter kind, supplied, according to Schellong [1888, 221] b}- two kinds 

 of tree, is used. The common name of the material is in Humboldt Baj- as well as on 



"Adriani and Kruyt. 191,0. Dr. M.- en Alb. C.-. Van Posso naar Mori. Mededeel, van wege het Nedcrl. 

 Zend, genootsch. Rotterdam. Vol. xliv, p. 135. 



