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The women of the adjacent Lake Sentâni use, as shown above, the closed bamboo belts. 

 'When however a girl of Lake Sentâni is married in H. B., she at once adopts the sïre- 

 fashion and when on a visit to lier native village, she will wear the sïre-be\t with undisguised 

 pride. The women themselves collect the material and do the plaiting. 



PUBIC COVERING OF THE MEN, it must be remarked, offers more variety in the 

 Xetherlands territory than elsewhere. Leaving unnoticed for the présent the cotton dress, 

 consisting in its most simple form, as with the Manfkion (fig. 42), of a blue strip of 

 calico and extending to the east in the shape of the loose, red calico apron, it appears 

 that, with the married Tugeri men, the plaited waist belts (SCHMELTZ [1895, 160]) to 

 the number of two : namely a broader one made of rattan strips (Leyden Muséum, Ser. 

 941, N°. 70 a ) and over it in the middle a narrower one made of reeds (N°. jd°), serve 

 as pubic belts ; ■ — when meeting women (SCHMELTZ [1904, 201]) the praeputium of the 

 vertically pûlled-up pénis is caught between the broader girdle and the belly, whilst a 

 shell, Semifusus pr oboscideus , tied on in front sometimes covers the glans 

 pénis. MODERA [1830, 29] saw the same custom in the Marianne Strait. According to 

 BlK (SCHMELTZ [1903, 204] the praeputium is hère pierced and held up by a string; — 

 this however is not the case (SCHMELTZ [1904, 200]). Haddon's statement [1891, 180, 

 PL XV], that a shell [Melo diadema, SCHMELTZ [1904, 200, PL II, fig. 4]) suspended 

 by strings from the girdle hangs over the genitals, only holds good for marriageable 

 young men; the apprentice, oklivide, of the club-house wears nothing at ail. Somewhat 

 more to the west, bamboo cylinders are used as pénis holders (Van DER Goes [1858, 45, 

 PL TT, fig. 11]). A pièce of bark, passed between the legs and kept in its place by another 

 one twisted round the hips, according to PARKINSON is the only proper covering in the 

 eastern part of the Berlin Harbour district, the part hanging clown being ornamented on festive 

 occasions with painted figures (ERDWEG [1902, 307, fig. 204]); more to the east it is covered 

 by both sexes with a plain apron of bark. From Siébu De CLERCQ and SCHMELTZ 

 [1893, 48, N°. 252] mention also a coronet of cassowary feathers, worn round the neck on 

 man hunting expéditions, and after the successful termination fixed round the waist and 

 used as a pubic covering. When home-made 

 pubic coverings are used inPapuaTalandjang, they 

 are usually as in N°. 430 — 444. — N c . 430 from Liki 

 is a girdle rope, doubly festooned, as illustrated 

 in fig. 56 and to which bunches of bark fibre 

 are fastened (fig. 51, second man from the right), 



Fig. 56. Pattem of festooning ropes. 



entirely corresponding with the object mentioned 



by De CLERCQ and SCHMELTZ [1893, 49, N°. 257, PL XIII, fig. 2] of Tarfia (see also fig. 55) 

 and of which the distribution certainly does not extend far beyond the coast territory limited 

 by both places. In Geelvink Bay, the men use the long narrow strip which can be obtained from 

 the stalk of the banana leaf and of which N c . 43 1 contains seven, tied together, and in this 

 way kept in stock at Mios Korwâr. Such a light yellow strip is extremely thin, sufftciently 

 pliable when in a dry condition and long enough (1.25 M.) to reach round the body ; it descends 

 over the left buttock, passes between the legs and with the broadened part (corresponding 

 with the leaf sheath), is drawn up in front of the pubic région and fastened to the circular 



