GLOTHING AND ORNAMENT. 



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This was not the case with the two objects in the collection, they were worn at least 

 in public by young men apart from any festivity or mystery, and of the four Papuans from 



Fig. 51. Men of Liki and Lansutu. 



Liki and Lansutu who came to visit our ship, one wore this dress (fig. 51 ; just visible 

 on the breast of the person on the left hand). The object of De Clercq, now in the Leyden 

 -Muséum (Ser. 929, N°. 202), is worked according to the 

 pattern of fig. 52; in the case of N°. 402 and 403 the 

 patterns of figs. 43, 4 and 9 are used. 



Similar objects were met with Sékânto people, but 

 as far as has been discovered, they only appear in a 

 limited territory (ERDWEG does not mention them from 

 the adjacent Tumleo), worn simply as an ornament by the 

 vainest of the young men, never by women. 



Waist BELTS, which are worn much lower down, 

 are very often used by the men to fasten the apron 

 and by the women to attach the bark petticoat. Such 

 belts are pushed down, slipping over the iliac crests on to the great trochanters and in front 

 below the navel. Proper ornamental belts are worn round the smallest part of the body, on 

 the soft part between the curvature of the lower ribs and the iliac crests. 



Fig. 52. 2 /,. Stitch of bands, aprons and bags. 



