CLOTHING AND ORNAMENT. 



Fig. 45- 



Silver ear pendant 



for women : 



L a k e Jamû r. 



CLERCQ and SCHMELTZ [1893, 24]). On Lake Jamûr I also saw nien wearing silver ear 

 pendants from Ceram, as only met with by De CLERCQ (De CLERCQ and SCHMELTZ [1. c. 

 fig- 5]) on the Papuan Islands and on the coast of Amberbaken. The people hère declared 

 that they obtained thèse ^hirawâne" from Kaimîra (probably Kaju Merah) on the south west 

 coast, situated to the west of the delta formed by the rivers which are fed by Lake Jamûr, 

 whose inhabitants carried on a direct trade with Ceram. The women wore 

 silver ear pendants (fig. 45), called mâmumamè. 



In Nagramâdu, situated half way between Lake Jamîir and Geelvink 

 Bay, the men called their ear pendants, small silver bolts bent into loop- 

 shapes, ^nanibè" and declared that thèse, as well as the silver ear pendants, 

 kumetabè, (fig. 46) of the women, came originally from Ternate. 



Neck ORNAMENTS, which do not also serve to suspend breast or back 

 ornaments, are not very numerous in New Guinea, unless one wishes to 

 classify amongst ornaments, the simple string which the boys, often when 

 quite young, wear round their necks as well as round their wrists. Amongst 

 the men of Lake Jamûr such a neck string was fairly common. 



Where a strip of calico, by préférence of a red colour, can be got, 

 it is twisted spirally into a cord and gladly tied round the neck; amongst 

 the Manîkion thèse red strings, mïsï, indicate mourning. Once tied round, 

 such a cord is never again laid aside; it often serves to suspend, on occasion, 

 nice looking or sweet scented weeds. At Tobâdi, such grasses hanging down 

 at the back, were called nânsoserâ (fig. 199 and anthropological plates). By 

 tying Nassa to a simple string, a necklace is obtained, which is found over a 

 wide area. FlNSCH [1S88 — 93, 97, PI. 6, fig. 6 and 7] mentions them at Port Moresby, 

 as .shell money"; those in the collection (N°. 372 and 373) are from Thaë and are long 

 enough to be twisted close round the neck several times. On Lake Sentâni I met with two real 

 necklaces, X°. 370 (PI. XII, fig. iS) two strips of rattan cleverly braided round a centre of 

 bark fibres, N°. 371 (PL XII, fig. 19) broader, consisting of two rows oferect Coix seeds between 

 plaits of white Pandanus fibres, on which a plaited work of black mycélium makes a pleasant effect. 

 I also saw at other places in the interior, necklaces manufactured entirely from incligenous 

 materials; thus at Nagramâdu, one of short yellow pièces of cane, strung together lengthwise. 



On Lake Sentâni neck rings made from two boar's tusks (N°. 378, PI. XIII, fig. 9) tied 

 together, are also used by the men, like those found in Humboldt Bay (N°. 377) and of 

 which the name th&de or tsade is probably connected with the name for neck, according to 

 BlXK [1897, 2] ,,tohte wau". Formerly they were more common and sometimes fastened on 

 to the top of the breast shields, to be mentioned heréafter (Van DER Goes [1858, PI. ZZ, fig. 8]. 



Othervvise this ornament appears to be only locally distributed. FlNSCH did not meet 

 with it to the east of the Tami River (Sechstroh-Fluss), and neither PARKINSON nor Erdweg 

 mentions it in connection with Berlin Harbour. 



Another différence from the adjoining German territory is the great scarcity of the 

 necklaces made from dogs' teeth, which are so commonly worn in the latter territory, even 

 by women. Their rarity makes them very valuable ; a man of Tobâdi would not part with 

 his necklace for a reasonable price. 



Nova Guisea. III. Ethnography. ii 



Fig. 46. 



Silver ear pendant 



for women ; 



N a e. r a m a d u. 



