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the collection contains some four very small breast bags (N°. 642 — 645) which are, no 

 doubt, exclusively intended for tobacco and bétel nuts and are carried on a sling round the 

 neck and hanging down on the breast, but which, for the better technical survey, I intend 

 to consider together with the women's bags under agriculture (Chapter V). 



After ail, the bamboo cylinders are the best adapted for keeping the dry tobacco, 

 which is thus protected from being crushed and turned into powder. Of thèse the collection 

 contains a great number from Hum- 

 boldt Bay and surroundings and besides, 

 some from the western districts, visited 

 by the expédition. The fifst group (N°. 



Fig. 4. Pattern of simple plaiting. 



Fig. 5. Rope binding for baskets. 



113 — 155) is principally obtained from 



Lake Sentâni, where to a certain 



extent an industry of thèse cylinders 



exists for the bartering trade, at least 



of some spécimens obtained in Tobâdi 



and Kajô, the owners declared, that they 



had been manufactured on the said lake. 



Xowhere did I see the bamboo cylinders 



so generally used as hère. Sometimes the 



cylinder is simply carried under the arm, 



sometimes it is lying in the bag, closed 



with a lump of bark, or leaves, or some 



other material. I never saw hère covers of bamboo, as often occur to the east in K. W. Land, 



according to HaGEN [1899, 184] and to the west in Geelvink Bay, as the next group 



proves. Generally the cylinders are ornamented over the whole surface with carved ornaments, 



as against the little or not at ail ornamented cylinders which BlRO [1901, 60] illustrâtes of 



K. W. Land. Plain and loop coils, circles, zigzag lines, fish figures, etc. are used; the cut-out 



parts being very rarely coloured. 



I am inclined to suppose that ail thèse ornaments hâve their decided meaning, just as 

 with the tatooing in thèse parts every stripe or curve has its fixed meaning. The deciphering 

 of this writing in ornaments, demands in the first place the explanation of the Papuans them- 

 selves and therefore cannot as yet be undertaken, with the faulty knowledge of the Sentâni 

 language; see Chapter XI. The second group of cylinders (N°. 156 — 168) is derived from 

 Geelvink Bay and surroundings and is characterised principally by the fact that hère the 

 hatching and the hook and the curl, also some reversed coil figures appear, of which the meaning 

 has been studied by UHLE [1886, 7, PI. V], and of which, in order to increase the contrast, 

 the cut-out parts are often smeared over with very dark red pigments. The human figure, 

 according to UHLE, only seldom appears on thèse cylinders and as such is only found on two of our 

 spécimens N°. 159 (PI. V, fig. 5 and 5a) from Wâri and N°. 165 (PI. V, fig. 6 and 6^) from Kwatisoré. 



N°. 166 — 168 (PI. IV, fig. 32 — 34) are obtained from Lake Jamur and prove by the 

 ornament, so entirely in the style of Geelvink Bay, that the district of this lake, 

 although belonging by language and intercourse to the south west coast, stands, as far as 

 technique and art are concerned, in close relationship to the said bay. It should be 



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