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the district of Sêkâ, who executed dances on the large stage near the Mrëwari of Tobâdi 

 for their hosts, fig. 198 — 200, where the rich contrasting colours of the ornament and the 

 rhytmic movement of the suspended objects created a pleasant impression; the neck collar 

 is plaited according to fig. 48. At Tarfia a similar ornament also occurs, under the name of 

 ^bau", but it does not appear to be met with to the east of the i4ist degree of longitude. 

 Still more beautiful is N°. 387 (PI. XV, fig. 3 and 3a) from Sàgeisârâ, where the contrasts of 

 colour between the yellow pièces of cane, the black mycélium, plaited according to fig. 43, 

 and the white Nassa are very pleasing. The manufacture of an ornamental pièce like this 

 demands a great deal of labour and explains why Van DER Goes [1858, 171] sounded 

 the praises of the inhabitants of this coast on account of the taste and skill with which 

 they applied themselves to fancy-work and art. As a protection against arrows the object 

 is of no value. 



The neck ornaments of more western districts are represented by four spécimens. That 

 from Liki (X 10 . 380, PL XIII, fig. 1) décorâtes the 

 breast with Conus-shell rings, whilst on the back 

 a shoot of Zingiberaceae is suspended by it ; 

 N°. 381 from Kwatisoré is admirable on account 

 of the irreproachable manner in which the small ■' 

 coloured beads are strung together, as already met 

 with in comb N°. 243 (PL VIII, fig. i a ) and accord- 

 insr to De Clercq and Schmeltz customary „. „ ™ . . 



J rig. 40. rlcutmg pattern. 



throughout the southern part of Geelvink Bay, 



both on ornaments for the back [1893, 44, N°. 232, PL XIII, fig. 1] and on girdles 

 [Le. 46, N°. 226, PL XI, fig. 8 and 42, N°. 224, PL X, fig. 6], armlets [Le. 37, N°. 182, PL 

 VIII, fig. 2] and belts [Le. 42, N°. 228, PL X, fig. 12]. N\ 384 (PL XI, fig. 6) from the same 

 settlement, shows a pair of hunting trophies, strung on a brass wire, probably imported 

 by way of Doré, like the crest of a gaura and a boar's tail, whilst N°. 382 and N°. 383 (PL 

 XIII, fig. 4) both consist of strips of Pandanus leaf on which small shells of Cypraea annulas 

 are strung, as occur on the ankle ornament mentioned by DE CLERCQ and SCHMELTZ 

 [1893, 50, X°. 268, PL VII, fig. 11], the whole hanging down from a neck string, in front of 

 the chest, as shown in fig. 206. 



Of BREAST ORNAMENTS the collection contains four spécimens, ail from Tobâdi 

 (N°. 388 — 391), called breast shields in accordance with the purpose for which they 

 are intended : protection against arrows, as is consecutively ascertained by MlKLUCHO MACLAY, 

 FlXSCH, BlRO, PARKINSON and others. The strongest proof in this respect is the fact that 

 PARK1NSON [1900, 26] saw each of the warriors in Arrop, who acted as outposts against the 

 adjacent hostile village of Warrpû, provided with this object. The expérience of the expé- 

 dition is in this respect only of a négative kind : When on the io th of July 1903 some members 

 of the expédition landed in the bay of Jonsu (between Humboldt Bay and Tanah Merah Bay, 

 therefore within the distribution zone of this object: Hatzfeldthafen (BlRO [1899,22]) to Tanah 

 Merah Bay (De CLERCQ and SCHMELTZ [1893, 39]), they were stopped by half a dozen heavily 

 armed and excited Papuans, who were expecting people from Orûm, with whom they were 

 at war. In the excitement of this state of war they treated the expédition in a very unfriendly 



