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margin of course reaches at the back as far as the neck; — if only one side is painted, this 

 is turned towards the face. Of the crescent-shaped rattan rims, which like the wooden ones 

 are vvorn over the forehead, DE CLERCQ and SCHMELTZ [1893, 18, N°. 36, PL IV, fig. 16] 

 mention a spécimen, used r to keep off the rays of the sun". 



It lias in front a projection which reminds one of the head of a hammerhead and is 

 not flat but curved like. the spécimen of the collection (N°. 272, PL X, fig. 2), of Tanah Merah, 

 which worn with the "convex side in front, was only intended for an ornament. The Utrecht 

 collection (N .'^ 229). and the Berlin M-useum (N°. 13 142) however contain spécimens mentioned 

 by BlNK of Humboldt Bay as a festive dress, flat and exactly like N°. 273, now collected 

 by me in Tobâdi. Hère they are'sometimes (WlLLEMOES-SUHM [1877, 161]), ornamented with 

 flowers. The-two objects of'Asé are besides ornamented with Coix and cassowary feathers, 

 thus reminding me of similar ones found in Collingwood Bay (Berlin Muséum, N°. 17497), 

 and àlso ■ on the Upper Fly. Hère, according to THOMSON [1892, 138], they were mounted 

 with cockatoo feathers. 



'Su'ch objects -are also reported as neck and breast ornaments of K. W. Land (Attack 

 Harbour, Berlin Muséum, N°. 9156 and 15 183) for which purpose the same kind of rings, with 

 dogs' or dolphins' teeth, are also used by the Tugeri (SCHMELTZ [1895, 159]). 



The ornament conïposed of cassowary feathers, in the typical brushlike shape, 

 as occurring on Làke Sentâni (N°. 277, PI. X, fig. 7) and in H. B. (N°. 278 — 286), sometimes 

 containing uncut feathers, ■ appears to be only of limited distribution ; further to the west 

 than Jamna it assumes a finer shape and then consists, like N°. 287 of Wâri, (PL X, fig. 3) 

 out of a single string, as illustrated by De CLERCQ and SCHMELTZ [1893,20, PL III, fig. 17] 

 of Wewé, .which is also occasionally worn as a bandolier over the breast. Towards the east 

 it is still met with in its typicalform up to Tumleo (ERDWEG [1902, 322, fig. 221]), curiously, 

 as an ornament for the back. Further to the east it appears to be altogether wanting. In 

 Humboldt Bay and on Lake Sentâni it is a war-dress, as De CLERCQ (De CLERCQ and SCMHELTZ 

 [1893, 21, N°. 6y]- reports of Jamna; the name „wig" (MoSELEV [1879, 439J) is confusing. 

 I only saw it worn once, wh'en the raen of Tobâdi and Ingrâs were to hold a contest in 

 archery and fired by the martial character of the feast, several of them had ornamented them- 

 selves as for'war. Besides, N°. 277 (PL X, fig. 7) of Asé was found with several others in 

 one of the wâtch-houses, which hère hâve the character of an armory, whilst of English N. G. 

 FlNSCH illustrâtes a headman in war-dress [1888 — 93, 93, 85, fig. 2] who wears the feather 

 coronet standing on the top of his head, a way of wearing it which I hâve also noticed on 

 photo's of the Merauke River, but the Tugeri living there, wear similar coronets also along 

 the forehead (SCHMELTZ [1895, 158], Leyden Muséum, Ser. 941, N°. 37). To the war-dress 

 also belongs the tail of Goura Bec cari Salv., as worn at Asé (N°. 290, PL X, fig. 8). With 

 regard to forehead ornaments Oinâke offers the greatest variety. I was able to collect two 

 good spécimens of thèse. The first N°. 288 (PL VIII, fig. 2) out of bark, ornamented with 

 Nassa and Abrus, closely resembles the object obtained by FlNSCH in Attack Harbour; 

 BlRO [1901, PL IV, fig. 11] with his spécimen of Berlin Harbour means something else. 

 The young raan who presented the above spécimen to me, taking it from his own person, 

 had pomaded his hair excessively with red clay and the object is consequently greasy and 

 red. On the Netherl. territory, at Jaur, DE CLERCQ has found something similar, but without 



