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natural fish-eye must hâve struck thèse fishermen, but whether it dérives its use as a motive 

 for tattooing, only from this cause and whether spécial importance is to be attached to the 

 peculiar position of such an eye above the root of the nose, excites the curiosity, but could 

 not yet be made out. In the case of some of the young men, besides this small circle, a 

 kidney-shaped figure was also met with in the same place, the concave side upwards, either 

 or not connected by a small vertical line from the middle of the convex side with the 

 small circle; sometimes the latter is also wanting. Fig. 13,/ — 6 represents the various figures 

 noticed. Fig. I3,J I also saw on the forehead of men from Lake Sentâni, the small line conti- 

 nued on the root of the nose. Sometimes the word „andte" was pronounced at the same 



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Fig. 13. '/j. Tattooing motive: „fish-eye"; Humboldt Eay. 



time, but I could not make the meaning clear. One of the most intelligent young men of 

 Tobâdi was to give me, at my request, a further explanation of the design and then sketched 

 fig. 13,(5 which, judging by the satisfaction of the drawer, was a success and again called 

 idje ïvindh. Possibly, the added curved lines represent the lines of the jaws, but this is a 

 mère guess. As far as I can remember the small circle does not occur amongst the tattooing 

 marks of the women, who, it may be useful hère to remember, do not in Humboldt Bay 

 participate in the fishing. 



Another motive consists of some parallel dashes, 4 — 5 cm. long, with a mutual 

 distance of 2 — 3 cm. on the extensor side of the forearm. The largest number noticed in one 

 row amounted to eight, on the right forearm ; they are however met with as well on the 

 left as on the right arm, also with the same individual. The usual number is three; the 

 figure is then generally close to the wrist. Once it was found that the proximal dash was 

 longer than the two others and its two ends were curved round in the direction of the 

 shoulders (fig. 14, 7). Ail thèse dashes are always called sâbe, but in explaining the above 

 eight, the word v àndte" was again heard. With a man of Tobâdi three parallel longitudinal 

 dashes with a cross dash below (fig. 14, 2) were met with on the front part of the right 

 thigh; whether this ornament had the same name, I omitted to make a note of. 



The 1 e e c h, chine, forms a third motive, which is often applied and in this 

 respect cornes close to the fish-eye. It is represented in two ways, namely, as a 

 semi-circular curved line, but also as a reversed coil (fig. 15,/ and 2). Both represen- 



