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a horizontal hole in the handle at a distance of 3 cm. outside the shell and prevents moving in 

 the vertical plane. A strip of rattan stretching between the same points, but running through two 

 small openings placed near the edge to the left and right, at a mutual distance of 5 cm. prevents 

 moving in the horizontal plane. Exclusively used for ladling, tègd, water, pu or bu. 



N°. gS. PI. III, fig. 6. '/]„. Sëkânto; as above, the cocoa-nut shell halved perpendicularly on the bota- 

 nical axis, not scraped, with a ramified twig caught in a side opening for a handle. Possibly unfinished. 



N°. 99. PI. III, fig. 3. '/,„. Tirapu. Angâdi; as above; shell of a calabash, 2 m. m. thick, wooden handle, 

 oté, caught in two small diametrically placed holes, situated near the edge; no rattan fastening, 

 kèmâ or kèma. At another place of the circumference, a small conical hole, from which two cracks 

 start, points apparently to a previous effort to bore a hole for the handle from the outside with a 

 conical instrument. 



N°. 100. Fâsi amïn. Wâri; bamboo for sagueir, diameter 7.5 cm. and length 1.05 M. with three nodes, 

 the partitions of the upper two perforated. Below the top node encircled by four twists of a strip 

 of rattan through which a ring for carrying, âpar, of the same material. In the opening a small pièce 

 of a semi-decayed bract, aria, of which the nerves form the meshes of a sieve. See De Clercq 

 and Schmeltz [1893, 64, N°. 303, PI. XV, fig. 14]. 



N°. 101. Oinake; rhizom of Maranta, (Scitamineaé) tied up in a leaf. Found in man's bag N°. 632. 



N°. 102. Oinake; small pièce of masoi, rind of Mas so la aromatic a. Found as above. 



Smoking materials. Various tobacco holders. 



N°. 103. OinSke; pièce of prepared bark, long 30, broad 18 cm. in which are wrapped up a few leaves 

 of tobacco. From a man's bag. 



N°. 104. PI. IV, fig. 6. '/-. MarS huwâ. Abâr; strip of prepared bark, marS, folded up and made into 

 a bag by sewing it with a continuous, two-stranded cord of fine fibre. Rolled up parallel with the 

 run of its fibres; contains loose tobacco leaves, sabegai or sachëbai, a dried Mu s «-leaf as wrapper, 

 infè or mè sachëbai. Also contained the fork N°. 44 and the bead, simbôni, N°. 684. 



N°. 105. Cheb âc liai mâr. Ingras; pièce of prepared bark, triâr or mari, sewed like N°. 104 and 

 used as a bag, containing two bundles each of seven tobacco leaves, cheb&chai or sâb&chei, the 

 stalks tied together with vegetable fibres and dried Mu ja-leaves as wrapper. Rolled up and wound 

 round with a brown string 1.40 M. long. Also contained the bone bodkin N°. 698. From man's 

 bag N°. 634. 



N°. 106. Infé. A se; dried pièces of Mu s «-leaves, taken outside the midrib, average 7 cm. square. 

 Weight per square d.m. 470 m.gr. As a wrapper for cigars. 



N°. 107. Ingrâs: part of the spathe of a palm, {Musa}), 27 cm. long, 23 cm. broad, rolled up parallel 

 with the direction of the nerves, contains material, udau, as N°. 106. From man's bag No. 634. 



N°. 108. Oinâke; basket for carrying tobacco, etc. made out of two strips of a palm leaf stalk 28 cm. 

 long, 1.2 cm. broad, each with 10 side leaves which, deprived of the middle nerve and split 

 up in three or four strips, form together, by being plaited, the body of the basket about 10 cm. 

 high. Half-way up a horizontal row of black, shilling strips of the scapus of the tailfeathers of 

 Rhyticeros plicatus (hornbill) is interwoven; the four corners ornamented with the same. A carry- 

 ing loop of 50 cm., made out of three-stranded rope, runs through one of the upper edges to the 

 other, in which way, when suspended by the loop, the basket closes by its own weight. Used by 

 the men. Contained N°. 61, N°. 103 and N°. 520. 



N°. 109. PI. IV, fig. 9. J L. Kaikari or kaikâri. Asé; as N°. 108, but the leaf material, jèw, of the 

 palm leaf stalks, wè, split finer, hence the horizontal herring bone design of the basket work is 

 finer. The whole basket is double, as ail the strips hâve been plaited downwards on one side 

 and round the bottom upwards on the other side. Half-way up two horizontal interwoven rows of 



