IOÔ G. A. J. VAN DER SANDE. 



fibre (MACGREGOR [1897, 46]) and strings of cassowary feathers [FlNSCH [1888 — 93, 101.)] are' 

 worn, in K. W. Land, in Finsch Harbour, coarsely twisted rings, which at Gragat (Rakèta) 

 Island and Hatzfeldt Harbour reached from the ankles to halfway down the calf [1. c. 250]. The 

 collection contains nothing in regard to thèse objects, as generally only unimportant pièces of 

 rope or string were seen. Yet in some of the photo's ankle bands and ankle rings may be 

 noticed, specially on men ; adult women very seldom wear thèse things. In the eastern part of 

 the Netherl. north coast several small strings are sometimes joined into a small band ; as may be 

 seen in fig. 28 in the case of the three men to the left. More to the west, shell rings are not 

 rare, see fig. 57, the standing child. They are passed over the foot at an early âge. Van 

 DER GOES [1858, 165] also met with thèse amongst the inhabitants of Arfak. For the rest one 

 sees men (fig. 27 and 57) as well as women (fig. 57) wearing métal rings of brass or silver 

 round the ankles. I am unaware whether some of thèse objects hâve any spécial meaning. 



Ornaments for the toes hâve never been noticed with the Papuans, neither has the 

 use of any protecting foot covering been mentioned. 



The collection further contains some objects from Papua Talandjang, which serve as 

 ornaments for différent parts of the body. N°. 517 — 519 (PI. XI, fig. 7), already noticed on comb 

 N°. 249 from Oinâke, sometimes worn in the ears, but above ail on the bags, are curious 

 ornaments, which in this form : a couple of dogs' teeth, fastened in a Sap taceae-seeà 

 and hanging by a plaited string, are very popular on the Netherl. -German fronder territory. The 

 Leyden Muséum already possessed the object in 1865 (Ser. 53, N°. 98). FlNSCH, who took the 

 seed for a fruit shell or peel, eut lengthways, found it in Attack Harbour [1888, 338; i888 a , 34, 

 PI. XVII, fig. 3]. What the ornament means in its peculiar combination, I do not know, but 

 that nevertheless, some spécial meaning is connected with it, I feel inclined to conclude from 

 the inclination to manufacture such an ornament, even when the necessary materials are not 

 available. Thus a spécimen was found on a comb in Humboldt Bay (De CLERCQ and SCHMELTZ 

 [1893, 16, N°. 22, PL III, fig. 11] where, as with comb N°. 249, the Sap taceae-seed was 

 imitated in tortoise shell; I also found such a tortoise shell imitation (N°. 520, PL XI, fig. 10) 

 in the basket N°. 108 of Oinâke, and with N°. 517 — 519 it is imitated in brown wood. The 

 seed in question is certainly very rare in thèse parts. It has occurred, that on the tours of 

 the expédition in the forest such a seed has accidentally been found and the disputing 

 among the Papuan carriers from Tobâdi for the possession thereof was remarkable and the 

 happy finder was envied for his luck. The dogs' teeth form a no less important part of the 

 ornament; on Lake Sentâni the whole object was named after thèse teeth v jochittje\ at Tobâdi 

 for the same reason v ckonjo" and where they are not found the shape is imitated in pièces 

 of shell (N°. 519) or pièces of boar's tusks (N°. 518). The typical form of the string of beads 

 is such that three small strings each carry a number of small multicoloured beads, but at 

 certain distances jointly run through a large bead. Finally it is worthy of note that BlRO 

 [1901, 40, fig. 12,2; 41, N°. 106] has found in Astrolabe Bay a breast ornament, which also 

 consists of the seed and a bundle of dogs' teeth. 



N°. 521 (PL XVII, fig. 15) consists of five seeds with an ornament scratched in them, 

 as already illustrated by Van DER GOES [1858, PL ZZ, fig. 7] also of H. B., as a neck ornament. 

 I hâve not found this mentioned from anywhere else. According to Mr. J. M. DUMAS thèse 



