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in the temples. They were not published until now. SCHERPBIER, captain of the steamer 

 CAMPHUIS, with which BlNK travelled to and from Humboldt Bay, offered to the Leyden 

 Muséum as original from this place, objects, ascribed by SCHMELTZ [1895, 164, PL XV, 

 fig. 3 and 4], to whom the find by BlNK could not be known, provisionally and under 

 reserve to the Tugeri, but according to the preceeding information, originating from Humboldt 

 Bay. Along the circumference of N°. 932/14 four dogs are shown, whilst the head and the 

 tail of the bird entirely remind one of the Utrecht spécimen. In the case of N°. 932/15 the 

 head with the small, square-shaped addition must, according to my expérience, be taken for 

 the head of a crocodile. 



Crescent-shaped wooden rims, worn along the forehead, were found in the 

 temple at Thaë (N°. 266, PI. XI, fig. 14, N°. 267, PL IX, fig. 9 and N>. 268, PL IX, fig. 2) 

 and in that at YVaba (X°. 269, PL XI, fig. 12). The people were not mysterious about them, 

 they were allowed to be seen by women and children, only, in order to protect the colours, 

 they were carefully wrapped up in strips of prepared bark. N°. 267 has in the middle of 

 the outer circumference one more or less pointed and towards the ends two widening projec- 

 tions, which again hâve the „bird tail" shape, whilst N°. 268 has two projections in the shape 

 of wings. I was shown how thèse objects, with the painted side turned towards the face and 

 with the string tied behind the head, had to be worn, but they were never seen in use at 

 the dances which the people from Thaë performed at Tobâdi. I never came across any- 

 thing like thèse wooden ornaments in the shape of a crescent. On the other hand such 

 articles made out of rattan as well as the rattan b ri ms are ofwide distribution. The présent 

 collection contains of thèse, two entire rings of Asé on Lake Sentâni (N°. 270 and 271, PL IX, 

 fig. 1) and five half ones of Tanah Merah (N°. 272, PL X, fig. 2), Tobâdi (N°. 273, PL IX, 

 fig. 3 and X D . 274) and Asé (N°. 275, PL X, fig. 4 and N°. 276, PL IX, fig. 6 and 6a). The 

 entire rings, justly compared with a cut-off rim of a hat, consist of numerous spiral twists 

 of a strip of rattan ail lying in a plane, which are kept together with continuous spiral win- 

 dings, producing a pleasing effect (PL IX, fig. 1 a). In the case of the half rings, the direction 

 of thèse continuous spiral twists changes regularly, producing with N°. 272, 273 (PL IX, fig. 

 3 a) and 274 a pretty radiating design. 



Entire rattan rings were not published of Netherl. New Guinea before now, unless 

 Vax DER Chvs [1894, 161, N°. 6925], with r rattan head ornament", means thèse rings. The 

 Utrecht collection, however, contains under N°. 232 a very fine spécimen of Humboldt Bay, 

 having a remarkable resemblance with a spécimen of the Tami Islands (Berlin Muséum, 

 N°. 17196). Whilst -similar rings do not appear to occur in British N. G., they are reported 

 by HAGEN [1899, 168] of Finsch Harbour, Simbang and Huon Gulf, and the Berlin Muséum 

 possesses spécimens of the coast villages (N°. 10594 and N°. 12944), also of Astrolabe 

 Bay (N°. 9379), and even of the district between the upper Ramu and the coast (N°. 14910). 

 It may still be mentioned that the same kind of ring, nicely ornamented, also occurs in the 

 Bismarck Archipelago (FlNSCH [1888 — 93, 16]), where they are passed over the head and worn 

 like a collar, and in a certain sensé distinguish the grown-up man fit to bear arms, from 

 the rising youth. For the purpose of wearing thèse rings, in K. W. Land (HaGEN [1899, 16S]) 

 the hair is shaved along the margins, mostly at the back, the border consequently lying 

 horizontally. At Asé this is not done and when ail the hair is pulled through the ring, the 



