g6 ELLIOT SMITH, Distribution of Mummification. 



of Nipa palm ; the viscera were thrown into the sea and 

 the incision closed by means of fine fish line. An arrow 

 was used to remove the brain, partly by way of the 

 foramen magnum and partly through a small slit which 

 was made in the back of the neck. The 'strong skin ' of 

 the brain (the dura mater) was first cut and then the 

 1 soft skin ' was pulled out. 



" The body was then brought back to the island and 

 was placed in a sitting position upon a stone ; the entire 

 body was then painted with a mixture of red earth and 

 sea water. The head, body and limbs were then lashed 

 to the framework with string and a small stick was 

 affixed to the lower jaw to keep it from drooping. The 

 framework, with its burden, was fastened vertically to two 

 posts set up in the rear of the house, and it was protected 

 from public view by a screen of coconut leaves. The 

 body was then gently rubbed down and holes were made 

 with the point of an arrow so that the juices might 

 escape. A fire was always kept alight beneath the body, 

 ' by-n-by meat swell up ' (p. 136). 



" D'Albertis (1) saw in Darnley Island the mummy 

 of a man, who had been dead over a year, standing in the 

 middle of the widow's house attached to a kind of upright 

 ladder of poles. They tint him from time to time with 

 rtd chalk (ochre) and keep his skin soft by anointing it 

 with coconut oil " (p. 137). 



In the Berlin Museum fur Volkerkunde there are 

 mummies of two children, photographs of which, obtained 

 from Professor von Luschan, are reproduced by Dr. 

 Haddon. They were given to Dr. Bastian by the Rev. 

 James Charnlers in 1880, having been obtained at 

 Stephen's Island. One of them is a small girl a few days 

 old. The body is painted red all over, except the scalp 

 and eyebrows, which are blackened. The other one was 



