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be seen on some objects of the collection, produces much that is beautiful. The idea trade- 

 mark, however, arouses the suspicion, that also from elsewhere, inside the same trading radius, 

 red clay might be placed on the market as a toilet article. But judging by the eagerness, 

 with which our rowers from Tobâdi wanted to seize upon a shell with clay, mixed ready for 

 use (N°. 209, PI. VII, fig. 9), which I left lying about for a moment, the produce of Nâcheibe 

 appears to be of first rate quality. It lias really a very strong colouring power. That this red 

 clay should be obtained by the heating of earth containing iron, as FlNSCH [1888 — 93, 14] 

 supposes, has never been noticed by me; strange enough Van DER GOES [1858, 169] also 

 reports that the red clay for powdering the hair of the men in H. B. is first heated. The 

 contents of N°. 209 smells of old cocoa-nut oil which they know how to prépare in H. B., 

 to the great pride of my interpréter, who remarked in a desparaging manner, that the people 

 of Lake Sentâni only mixed their pigments with water. In K. W. Land, where, at the time 

 of FlNSCH [1888 — 93, 89], the art of preparing oil was not understood, the scraped pith of 

 the cocoa-nut was used. I do not know whether in H. B. another liquid is used, identical with 

 the liquid rosin- or gumlike juice from a wild kanari tree, obtained by incisions in the trunk, 

 which according to De CLERCQ and SCHMELTZ [1S93, 12], serves elsewhere for doing up the hair. 



The black pigment is the same soot, cliân, chdne, which is used for tattooing, obtained 

 by incomplète burning of the damarlike kind of rosin, jëchejû, (N°. 224). Evidently, it is very 

 well known that with a limited admission of air more soot is formed, than with open burning, 

 at ail events, when I was shown the préparation of this soot, by placing a potsherd upside 

 down over a smoking pièce of burning rosin, the earth round the sherd, was pressed down 

 to limit the admission of air, and to increase the gathering against the inner side. This mode 

 of préparation makes it more valuable than the other pigments. The préparation out of cocoa- 

 nut shells or the use of black minerais I hâve never noticed. As N°. 226 and N°. 227 of the 

 collection show, the blacking is kept in small bamboo cylinders, ide, ide fonze, generally closed 

 with a plug of vegetable fibres or of prepared bark, mare, inaru. 



The white pigment is nothing else than the siri-lime, mixed with water or accor- 

 ding to BlNK [1897, 163] with cocoa-nut oil; the yellow is the clay as used at Kajo Jenbi 

 for the manufacture of the pots (see N°. 713), the grey pigment (N°. 228) finally is the 

 sort of clay mentioned on pag. 1. — ROBIDÉ VAN DER Aa [1879, 269] states that this clay was 

 brought on board by the inhabitants as eatable earth and as an object for barter. I présume 

 that the manual to indicate that face and chest are smeared over with this material, has 

 been mistaken for the movement of the hand in indicating eating, in which case the hand 

 also moves about betvveen the mouth and the région of the stomach. FlNSCH [1888, 346] has 

 at first also been misled in this respect; pièces in the shape of fiât, round, perforated cakes, 

 fit to be suspended on a string, were offered to him, and strange to say, small pièces of it 

 were even consumed in his présence [1888 — 93, 226]. De CLERCQ and Sc.HMELTZ [1893, 16, N°. 30] 

 report from H. B. a pièce of similar shape, only used for gluing on the hair ; I hâve not seen 

 such use made of it now. In the language of Jotefa it is called âme, whilst the place where 

 it is found was still further indicated as v Kâjowâ", meaning presumably „belonging to the 

 territory of Kajo". Barkfibres, out of which the rope for the bags (Chapter V) is prepared 

 are also coloured with this clay. Mixed with oil the colour would become much darker. The 

 grey clay of Humboldt Bay consists, according to the analysis of VLAANDEREN [1874, 179], 



