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A NATURALIST'S WANDERINGS 



and white patchwork band, was allovTed to hang loose to the 

 shoulders ; or it was done up in a frizzed mop, different, how- 

 ever, from the unravellable matted wisp seen on the Papuans 







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J.B.Ck 

 COIFPrRES OF THE NATIVES OF TIMOU-LABT. 



of Macluer Inlet in New Guinea, or among the Aru Islanders. 

 Their coiffure seems to depend on the kind of hair, straight 

 or frizzled, that Nature has given them ; when frizzled it is 



arranged in a mop, and when straight it is combed out and 

 crimped with the instrument shown on page 309, to hang 

 down the back in a " cataract." The arranging of their hair is 

 one of their most enjoyed occupations, and the vanity with which 



