G6Q DOGS AND SAVAGES. 



hair, which, according to the assertion of the Mesopotamia!) Jews, is 

 plaited from dog's hair. 1 The Haidahs of British Columbia weave 

 white dog's hair with other material, and on Puget Sound blankets are 

 also made of it. 2 



The large white eyeteeth of the dog, worn singly in the ears or many 

 together, also struug on a string, mingled with those of other carnivora, 

 are widely used as an adornment, not only for men, but for women and 

 girls ; for example, as a breast ornament at Friedrich Wilhelms Haven in 

 New Guinea, as necklaces and bracelets iu the western part of the 

 south coast of the British portion of that island f near Cape Concordia 

 such strings are more rare, the bones of Abrus precatoriusheiug used 

 instead. 4 On the Solomon Islands a traveler saw a magnificent neck- 

 lace of 500 dog teeth, each of which was carefully bored through. 

 Since only 2 teeth are here taken from each dog 250 dogs must have 

 been required, most of which were natives of San Christoval, where the 

 teeth are extracted from the living dogs without compunction. 5 In the 

 southeastern portion of New Guinea all four eye teeth of these animals 

 are taken, and with more reason than shells (cowries), used as money as 

 they are in the Solomon Islands, Samoa, and other places ; partly taking 

 the place of our diamonds and other precious stones. 6 The Igorroto also 

 wear necklaces and pendants of dogs' teeth. 7 These teeth are also used in 

 New Guinea for weapons, and in the clubhouses there one may see 

 many dog skulls hung up as decorations. 8 As in Java it is held to be 

 disgraceful to have white teeth like those of the dog the people, as is 

 well known, color their teeth and those of dogs are not used as 

 ornaments. 9 



Schweinfurth saw in Africa necklaces of teeth of which there were 

 several from the dog; 10 Junker saw similar ones among the Bari, and 

 Schuver among the Berta. 11 



1 Zeitschr. f. allg. Erdk. N. F., V, 79. 



2 Bancroft, Native Eaces, I, 166, 215; Lelang, Fusang, p. 19; Lord, the Naturalist 

 in Vancouver and British Columbia, II, 212-225. M. Boulet, the proprietor of a 

 dog kennel in Evreux, gave to the former President of the French Kepublic a waist- 

 coat made from the long hair of his "Marce;" Hamh. Fremdenblatt of 24, 11, 1888. 



3 Mitth. aus deutsch. Schutzgebieten, v. 12. Finsch, Samoafahrten, pp. 44, 89, 293; 

 Eokoschny, Die Deutschen in d. Siidsee, p. 55: Journal Geogr. Soc. London, 1876,56; 

 Petorm. Mitth., 1879, 277; Deutsche Geogr. Bliitter, according to Alberti Ch. Lyne, 

 New Guinea, p. 31. 



4 Finsch, loc. cit., p. 338. 



5 Natur, 1888, 139. 



* J Annalen des Wiener Hofmuseums, III, 4, 302; Ausland, 1884, 618; Deutsche 

 Kolonialzeitung, VII, 105. 



"Peterm. Erganz.-Heft, No. 67, 25. 



8 Zeitschr. d. Ges. f. Erdk., 1877, 151; Proc. of the Queensland Branch of the 

 Geogr. Soc. of Australia, III, 2, 67. 



9 Waitz, I, 366; Laplace, Voyage autour du monde, II, 463. 



10 Peterm. Mitth., 1871, 138; Zeitschr. d. Ges. f. Erdk., VI, 204. 

 "Peterru. Mitth., 1881, 86; Junkers Eeisen, I, 283, 285, and Peterm. Erganz.-Heft, 

 No. 72, 65. 



