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wishes to see the breast shield interpreted as a bird. The pièce of feathered cassowary skin 

 of Ingrâs (N°. 393) also served as a breast ornament at festivities. Finally it may 

 still be mentioned that South New Guinea possesses no breast shields as referred to; but in 

 its stead crescent-shaped objects composed of rattan strips, with dolphins' or dogs' teeth 

 on the convex side (SCHMELTZ [1895, 159]), which strongly remind one of the rattan 

 breast ornaments in the Berlin Muséum collected froni Attack Harbour (N°. 9156) and from 

 the territory between Cape Croisilles and Hatzfeldt Harbour (N°. 15 183), both of which objects 

 again closely resemble the half rattan rings mentioned above (N°. 272 — 276) as forehead 

 ornaments. 



The Tugeri wear on the breast many bundles made from the skin of pigs' tails, 

 possibly hunting trophies, but at the same time a not unsuitable protection against arrows 

 (HADDON [1891, PI. 15], SCHMELTZ [1904, PI. XII, fig. 2]). It appears however that 

 women also wear this ornament. Further I wish to point out the great similarity in the 

 names of the variously shaped breast ornaments amongst themselves in the différent localities 

 and différent dialects on the northerly coasts of the Netherlands territory; thus N°. 386 

 of Kajô Entsâu is called chandôri, N°. 387 of Sâgeisârâ chainâri, N°. 388 — 391 of Tobâdi 

 chendori N°. 196 and 197 of Wandisiau kaindori (DE CLERCQ and SCHMELTZ [1893, 39]). 

 Perhaps with a fuller knowledge of the language more light may be thrown on the meaning 

 of thèse objects. 



BANDOLIERS are very commonly worn, especially in Netherlands New Guinea, some- 

 times singly, sometimes as a set, forming a crossing in the middle of the breast and 

 in the middle of the back. The Tugeri men (SCHMELTZ [1895, 160; 1905, 199] often wear more 

 than one set, the one broader than the other and generally decorated with Coix seeds ; I hâve 

 also found double sets on the Netherl. north coast. In only very few places they are entirely 

 wanting, at ail events they are much more often seen in daily wear than was formerly sup- 

 posed (DE CLERCQ and SCHMELTZ [1893, 207]). In German and British New Guinea they are 

 much less used. The woman of Angel, occupied in boring, illustrated by Parkinson 

 [1900, 37], however wears a set of bandoliers. Sometimes they are intended as a mourning 

 dress (FlNSCH [1888 — 93, 158]), a peculiarity which has not been ascertained of the bandoliers 

 of the collection. Amongst thèse, none appear with dogs' teeth strung on, such as met by De 

 CLERCQ (De CLERCQ and SCHMELTZ [1893, 39, N°. 186, PL VII, fig. 12 and N°. 201]) on 

 Jamna and on Liki; thèse are very rare, at least I ne ver saw them. In many coast 

 districts, for instance in Humboldt Bay, bandoliers are worn by men as well as women, by 

 the men close under the armpits, often fitting somewhat tight and in the case of the women 

 (PI. XLVII, fig. 3) passing sometimes below (fig. 6), more often above the mammae. On Lake 

 Sentâni, as far as I can remember, I never saw them worn by women. 



The three sets of Tobâdi (N°. 394 — 396) apart from the différent width, are entirely 

 like the set which DE CLERCQ and SCHMELTZ [1893, 39, N°. 200a, PI. VI, fig. 5] mention, 

 plaited according to fig. 48 and with halved Coix seeds strung on lengthwise. On the other 

 hand I found the set from Asé (N°. 397, PI. XIII, fig. 2) with an wavy line of entire 

 Coix seeds, the stringing twine running zigzag between two-stranded, parallel strings, as 

 may be seen in fig. 49. In the case of a set of Thaë (N°. 398), soiled by much red 

 clay, a wavy line is formed in the same manner with Nassa seeds, also noted of Berlin 



