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that they still serve now-a-days as an article of barter with the inhabitants of the coast, who 



themselves hâve already given up this dress. At Horna they would not part with the ornament 



at any reasonable price. Thèse Conus 

 disks perforated in the centre, Van DER 

 GOES [1858, 165], also savv worn bythe 

 women of the Arfak. The ornament 

 for the forehead of the women of H. B. 

 consisting of seed rings and Nassa, which 

 De Clercq and Schmeltz [1. c. 20, 

 N°. 63, PL IV, fig. 9] describe, 

 has not been seen any more now. 

 Also at the marriage cérémonies wit- 

 nessed in Sëkâ, the forehead of the 

 bride remained unornamented. That the 

 men generally wear more head orna- 

 ments, is owing to their greater désire 

 for show; one will very rarely find it 

 stated, as in the case of a head band 

 of Andai, ornamented with Nassa, in 

 the Amsterdam Muséum (Ser. 9, N°. 9) 

 and of the forehead band, burea, (VON 

 ROSENBERG [1875, 103]) of the Hàtam, 

 except in the case of the men with 



three, in that of the women with one shell pièce, that the object is intended as a protection 



against arrows. 



Nose ornaments. The use of nose ornaments is very gênerai in New Guinea. The septum, the alae 

 nasi and sometimes also the ridge of the nose are pierced for this purpose. 



The custom is most limited in K. W. Land, where by no means ail the men and still less the 

 women wear a nose ornament, the length of the bolt-shaped ornaments (Tridacna, coral, cane, bones, 

 cassowary primaries, etc.) being also unimportant, but the thickness up to 1.6 cm.; in the eastern part many 

 beautifully decorated pièces of mother of pearl (Finsch [1888 — 93, PI. 7, fig. 2; 1888 a, PI. XX, fig. 5 and 

 6]) in the west the sets of boar's tusks and parts of shells [1888 a, PL XX, fig. 7] are numerous, as well as 

 dogs' teeth, Conus- and tortoise shell rings and strings of beads, for which purpose the alae nasi are 

 also pierced. 



In British N. G., with both sexes, almost exclusively the septum is pierced, and the small bolts made 

 of wood, bamboo, coral, quartzite, Tridacna, Hippopus, pig and kangaroo ribs, sometimes surrounded 

 by small rings of human hair to a length of 20 cm., are principally used by the men. On the south 

 west coast, amongst the Tugeri, the septum is however seldom pierced, although sometimes a long pièce 

 of cassowary bone is worn in it ; more common is the piercing of the alae nasi with slitlike openings, which 

 converge towards the point of the nose and in which boar's tusks are worn (Haddon [1891, 181, PL XV]) 

 with the points upwards, also small cylinders, bolts of cassowary bone to a thickness of 2 c. m. (Schmeltz 

 [1S95, 15S; 1904, 203; 1905, 198, fig. 3, 207, fig. r2 and 13]). Thèse hang down parallel past the opening 

 of the mouth, sometimes below the level of the chin, and the question may be asked whether it is intended 

 thereby to imitate the projecting incisors of the maie dugong. 



Fig. 42. Group at Horna. 



