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fibres, is most generally distributed. When in K. VV. Land a small petticoat is worn over 

 the common narrow strip of tark fibre, it consists (FlNSCH [iSS8 a , 15, PL XVI, fig. 81) of 

 the split leaves of the cocoa- or sago palm. Using a set of aprons [1. c. fig. 9], a shorter 

 one in front, a ionger one behind, according to HaGEN [1899, 173, PI. 25, 39, 40], they are 

 made of Pandanus fibres, worn up to three and more sets in layers one over the other, 

 in the case of widows uncoloured, by other women with horizontal, red stripes; — sometimes 

 also with black and yellow ones (BiRO [1901, 51, fig. 20]). A short survey of the female dresses 

 in Netherl. New Guinea teaches us that such double aprons, which leave the hips free, hâve been 

 also met with on the south coast of the Mac Cluer Gulf (De Clercq and SCHMELTZ [1893, 46]) 

 and on the south west coast with women from the mountainous country near Lakahia, and 

 hère also, as quite an independent observation, aprons of cassowary feathers hâve been noticed, 

 strung together in a similar manner (Van DER GoES [1S58, 45, PI. T T, fig. 12]). Curious 

 ethnographical islands, in the middle of the perineal band of the epidermis of banana leaf 

 or of coloured calico, commonly used hère! This calico, imported in the west by Ceram 

 traders, is generally dark blue ; amongst the Manikion great parcels of it form a kind of 

 currency (see Chapter VII). The Mohammedan and Christian influences, cause a constantly 

 increasing use of the more complicated dress in the western parts (see fig. 11, fig. 32 and 



De Clercq and Schmeltz [1893, 

 46]). Van der Goes [1858, 29] 

 found on the S. W. coast near 

 Arguni Bay, as well as in the 

 district of Kaimanni the „sarong" 

 fastened by the girls above, and by 

 the women below the bosom. The 

 cotton sarong was also met with 

 at Nagramâdu (where it is passed 

 between the legs, fig. 57) and at 

 Angâdi, fig. 201, territories, opened 

 up by the expédition; as far as 

 the last named place is concerned, 

 it is imported along the southern 

 waterway with the sea; as for 

 Nagramadu, it was obtained from 

 Geelvink Bay and during the work 

 in the gardens, just as elsewhere, 

 replaced by the strip of bark. In 

 Geelvink Bay, where several missionaries are established, the sarong is gaining ground, also 

 with the men (fig. 59); this has even become the case to the east of Cape d'Urville and in 

 the heart of Papua Talandjang, since the opening of regular steamship intercourse. At 

 festivities in Humboldt Bay, in which women and girls participate, the imitated Malay dress 

 was sometimes seen, the more coloured the better. On Lake Sentâni however they had not 

 got as far as this in 1903; — at a wedding feast at Asé (fig. 128) not a shred of cotton was 

 to be seen and the bride wore her bark petticoat with much grâce. Thèse petticoats, of 



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