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G. A. J. VAN DER SANDE. 



Another tattooing décoration, àlso sometimes met with on articles of clothing or 

 ornament, consists of a small circle 3 cm. in diameter, to the periphery of which five 

 hooks hâve been added at regular intervais ; the hooks curved differently. If the infor- 

 mation obtained has been well understood, the whole is to represent a crab. Once it was 

 met with on the front side of the right upper arm in the lengthening of a séries of paired 

 curves, as in fig. 17. 



Of the larger décorations the frog, in the language of Jôtëfa „chàrau" 

 is the most common. It is found, to the length of 23 — 30 cm. and to the 

 breadth of 11 — 13 cm. in the skin of the backs of a great many men, at 

 the side of the vertébral column, sometimes to the left but more often 

 to the right. Although I only examined a limited number of men, I 

 found on three occasions that both halves of the back were ornamented 

 with this figure and in one of thèse cases, a third smaller spécimen 

 had been drawn in the région of the loins to the left. It can rarely be 

 made out which end represents the head of the animal, because the 

 figure is as a rule symmetrical, the explanations given however indicated 

 the end reaching upwards to or on the angulus scapulae as the head. 

 V J Fig. 18, / gives the most familiar form where a represents the head, 

 cJïdbûr, b the hind part of the body, mediwâ, c the back or vertébral 

 column, oikoini, d the fingers, ch'àrau ie, e the young ones (or eggs) 

 càdrau natu. As a rule the intervening space between each pair of legs 

 is filled up with a leech figure, f = chine, so symmetrically that one is apt 

 to take them for a part of the frog figure. Generally a similar set of 

 semi-circular leeches is seen at the side of the dashes which represent 

 the young ones, the concavity turned outwards. Fish-eyes and reversed 

 coil-shaped leeches, which, as stated often, occur in large numbers in 

 the skin of the back, sometimes also go astray inside the frog figure. Fig. 18, 2 represents 



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Fig. 17. '/3- Tattooing 



figure, the lower part 



a crab ; Humboldt Bay. 



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Fig. 18. /, .?, j>, 4 : '/g ; J : '/■!• Tattooing motive: cliârau\ Humboldt Bay. 



another common form; hère also the charau natu are not wanting, and at each of the limbs 



