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was made l)y wrapping the lower ends of the featliers with sennit or inserting 

 tliem in a short bone cyHnder. A sennit loop attached to the ornament was 

 slipped over the finger. (See PI. Lxxvi. C.) Dordillon translates the word kilii 

 as "ornament of white bead for the lingers." True finger rings seem to have 

 been unknown in ancient times. 



r.RACELETS AND ARM ORNAMKXTvS 



The ]\larquesan shell bracelets are of considerable interest in view of the 

 wide distribution of such ornaments in Melanesia and their comparative rarity 

 in Polynesia. Two examples are shown on Plate i.x.wi. />. The broader of 

 these is made from the end of a large Conus shell of some sort and is rather 

 crudelv finished. The narrower has apparently been ground from Tridacna 

 shell, and is unusually well made. As Tridacna shells of suitable size are lack- 

 ing or at least very rare in the Marquesas it seems probable that this bracelet was 

 an imjxirtation. 



In the Peabody Museum at Salem are some very interesting wrist orna- 

 ments which were collected tluring the early nineteenth century. They are of 

 types which have been forgotten l)y the ])resent natives and the locality in which 

 they were obtained is unknown. Two of these ornaments (PI. lxxvi, F) are 

 made from large blue black seeds, about the size of a small grape, which are 

 attached to a band of plaited coconut fiber identical with that used for hair orna- 

 ments. Each seed is punctured at the stem end and attached to a cord of twisted 

 fiber, which is held in place by a small wooden plug. The other ends of these 

 cords are plaited into the band. 



A still more showv wrist (irnament is composed of strings of .llviis prc- 

 carforius seeds. The fiber base is like that used in the ornaments just described, 

 but the seeds are pierced and strung on loops of fine cord whose ends are wo\-en 

 into the band. (PL lxxvi, G.) 



NECKLACES 

 Necklaces made of a great number of strands of braided human hair were 

 formerly worn l)y men in the Marquesas. These necklaces, called by Dordillun 

 fakiouolio. are rare, Init there is a very fine specimen in the Peabody Museum at 

 Cambridge and four less perfect ones are in the Peabody Museum at Salem. 

 (See PI. Lxx\-ii, I, ./.) In one specimen (2) the strands of hair seem to have 

 run aroun<l the neck continuously; in the others the strands were made into a 

 thick buntlle with the ends wrapped with many turns of fine sennit or human 

 hair string. One end of specimen No. i is wrapped in such a way that it forms 

 a compact blunt point and the other end is finished with a sort of corrugated 

 cylinder large enough to admit this ])oint. When worn, the pointed end was evi- 



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