54° The National Geographic Magazine 



PAPUAN GUIDES 



These two men were guides when I climbed a high hill to take some views of Humboldt 

 Bay. Before we had gone far I gave them enough tobacco to buy the daggers, made of 

 human thigh bones, which they carried in their arm bands. I followed them with more com- 

 fort when I felt these daggers rattling in my own pocket. The men's hair is decorated with 

 blades of grass and orchids. 



