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they can be reduced to powder between the fingers, sometimes however small pièces of the 

 shells are found unburnt in the lime of the boxes. 



CULIXARY UTENSILS. 



N°. 1. PI. I, fig. 21. '/ 7 . Nasenâr. Tobâdi; basket, iiâr, with sago, nas, cylindrical, made out of 

 six horizontal rings of strips of sago leaf stalks, each twice the length of the circumference, 

 intenvoven with similar double strips, rising under 60°, and after winding spirally round the upper 

 ring, again descending in the other direction, also under 60 3 and forming the bottom. The sides 

 thus show five horizontal rows of hexagons. The bottom and sides covered on the inside with 

 pièces of a leaf-sheath, presumably of wild Areca. 



N°. 2 — 27. N°. 2, ri and 15 on PL I, fig. 13, 17, 12. ' 2 /_. Suwè or suwai. Ajâpo and Asé; spoons 

 made out of the shell of a cocoa-nut, ko, as a sector from pôle to pôle, often with a germ-point at 

 the narrowest end, which serves as a handle, kobâ, goba/ig, the other end broader and sharpened 

 somewhat from outside to inside. Length 9 — 14.5 cm., width 3 — 7.5 cm. Some are ornamented, 

 sema, on the inner surface of the handle with superficial incisions, the outer surface generally with 

 single or multiple fish, kS, ornament, head and body united, long side- and tail-fins ; eye, jochc, as 

 a circle or as a spiral. Sometimes several fish figures gathered in one large fish form. Besicles spirals, 

 eye-ornaments, twisted lines, etc. The cut-out portions often covered with lime, au. Specially used 

 in eating, anèro, sago-porridge, fl, also for drinking, ansi, antji, water,/«. Generally carried in the bags. 



N°. 28. Prèw. Tobâdi; as before, without ornament, found in a man's bag. 



X". 29. Dâ. Tobâdi; spoon made out of the forepart of the left fémur of a pig, por; an oblong pièce, 

 17,5 cm. long, with the head of the joint, 18 cm. wide ( : / s of the circumference of the bone), the 

 end rounded off and sharp. Used for eating sago-, lias, porridge, for loosening the flesh of cocoa-nut , 

 etc. Generally carried between the upper armlet or in the bag. 



N°. 30. Dâ. Tobâdi; made out of right fémur, length 16 cm., the end irregularly broken off. 



X = . 3r. PL I, fig. n. -]-. Tel m or tjâm, Asé; spoon made out of left fémur of a pig, obo, with head of 

 joint, jv, retained. The convex side, few, with ornaments, sema, scratched in. For eating sago-broth, 

 fl, and for this reason also called fitâm or fitjâm. 



N°. 32. Dâ. Tobâdi; made out of lower end of tibia of a pig, por, and consisting of the surface of the 

 joint, with a 12.5 cm. long and 1.2 — 2.3 cm. broad, at the end a sharpened and rounded-off strip 

 of the diaphysis, and diametrically opposite to this a narrow, 3.5 cm. long pointed pièce of the 

 diaphysis; between both a slit 2.5 cm. deep. Generally carried between the upper armlet, with the 

 point towards the outside and with the slit resting on the armlet. Use as before. 



N°. ^t,. Bagai. Kaptiau; almost entirely as N°. 32, length 16.5, largest width 3, point 2.5 cm. Use as 

 before. 



N°. 34. PL I, fig. 16. -;-. Torang. Nimbûran; as N = . 32, the head of the joint filed down across the 

 longitudinal direction of both concavities. The end worn off blunt by use. 



The slit between the point and the spoon proper only 1 cm. deep. Use as before. 



N°. 35. Dâ. Ingrâs; as N°. 32, but without a point and the surface of the joint halved; length 16.5, 

 largest width 3.4 cm. Found in man's bag, N°. 634. Use as before. 



N°. 36. Ni. Thaë; as N°. 35 the surface of the joint with one concavity, length 15, width at the semi- 

 circular sharpened end 3 cm. Use as before. 



X 3 . 37. Torang. Ximbûran; made out of the tarsometatarsus of a cassowary, the surface of the joint 

 slightly filed off; the convex side of the 19 cm. long, 2 cm. broad diaphysis ornamented with 

 scratched-in crossing lines. Use as before. 



