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especially the first one is an example of pure vaulting. Thèse combs hâve also a strikingly 

 large number of points (resp. 20 and 29). 



Most of thèse combs hâve however a narrow handle, in conséquence of the strong 

 flattening, made at that part of the pins. Some comb handles hâve a varying breadth, a 

 resuit obtained by the varying breadth of the component parts (N°. 244, PI. VII, fig. 3, but 

 more marked in N°. 251 and 256), also sometimes obtained by adding extra pins to the handle 

 (N°. 253 and 257), their number thus exceeding the number of the points of the comb. Very 

 pretty also are the combs with two handles (N°. 246, PI. VII, fig. 16 and N°. 257), each 

 formed by the continuation of a group of the pins. The small lashings of thèse handles are 

 often applied so regularly that they actually serve as an ornament. The material of the 

 pins does not always appear to be of the same nature; with some combs (N°. 246, 249, 254, 

 258) they are, according to the researches of Mr. J. JESWIET, Conservator of the Colonial 

 Muséum at Harlem, nothing else but the woody pins, which occur in the broad leaf-sheaths 

 of Arenga saccharifera; the peculiar distribution of the black vascular bundles entirely 

 correspond with this. ERDWEG [1902, 318] (about Tumleo) speaks of: „Blattrippen der Fàcher- 

 blàtter hiesiger Palmenarten". The application of thèse pins for this purpose is indeed very 

 practical, it saves an enormous amount of work and it must hâve been of great importance 

 to thèse people in the recently ended stone period, that thèse pins are by nature, perfectly 

 straight, round and pointed. The comb illustrated by FlNSCH [1888a, pi. XVII, fig. 3] with 

 the points bent somewhat outwards, is in this respect badly drawn. With other combs in the 

 collection, palmwood has been used with an ornamental purpose, as the pins hâve been eut 

 lengthwise on the border of dark wood (rich in vascular bundless) and light wood (poor in 

 vascular bundles) and are thus coloured dark on one side and light on the other. The 

 Areca-nut, after removing the kernel, stuck on the end of the handle and fastened with a 

 black sticking material, forms a very common ornament of thèse combs. A strip of hairy 

 cuscus skin (N°. 246, 247, 249, 251, 256, 257) wound round the handle and fastened with a bark 

 fibre tied round, also strips of red calico (N°. 245, 249), feathers, either or not eut into 

 birds' figures (N°. 245, 246, 247, 253) and composed as indicated above (pag. 62), coloured 

 beads (N°. 255) and Coix seeds (N°. 253), also sweet scented Cardamomum leaves (N°. 

 245, 248, 250) are fastened on to the combs and form the most common ornaments. Finally 

 comb N°. 249 is ornamented with an object, much seen in thèse parts and which is 

 described later on with N°. 517 — 519. The type of the ornamental comb, as opposed to 

 the plain scratching stick, is certainly the comb of Tobâdi, N°. 258 (PI. VIII, fig. 7) where 

 a bird of paradise (P ar adisea minor. Shaw.) is stuck on the handle. 



Hardly ever, more than one comb has been noticed to be worn on Lake Sentâni, as 

 reported by DE CLERCQ and SCHMELTZ [1893, 12] of H. B. and by FlNSCH [1888, 87] of 

 K. W. Land, and this is entirely in accordance with the less abundant ornament of the body 

 which distinguishes those people from the luxury loving inhabitants of the coast. 



As a further ornament of the hair, I hâve already (pag. 58) noticed the bamboo tubes, 

 to be placed in a line with the „Haarkôrbchen" which FlNSCH [iSSS — 93, PI. 6, fig. 15] has 

 reported as a characteristic of the western part of K. W. Land and (ERDWEG [1902, 319, 

 fig. 211]) being very common on Tumleo. It may therefore be called remarkable that thèse 

 baskets as well as the beautiful ornamental rings of BlRO [1899, 5, PI. I, fig. 6] are entirely 



