IOS G. A. J. VAN DER SANDE. 



nautical miles more to the north. Perhaps a monopoly of the said Sissanô is the cause of 

 this, and perhaps ERDWEG was never shown the rough seeds in their yellow brown rind, nor 

 the manufacture of the seed rings on Tumleo. For the openings are not caused by boring, 

 as ERDWEG supposes; the small and very hard seed would hardly lend itself to this; but on 

 two opposite spots a part of the seed is simply ground off, as stated by PARKINSON [1900, 27] 

 and the inner soft kernel is removed through the openings thus created. I saw it done in 

 this way at Sâgeisârâ, where an old man on a sort of grinding stone rubbed the small seed, 

 caught between the thumb and the index. The man said, that generally the seed is held in 

 wooden tongs. If the seed is not ground down exactly at two opposite pôles, a ring of unequal 

 thickness is obtained. The ornaments provided with large quantities of thèse small rings, 

 represent, as may vvell be imagined, many an hour passed in grinding down the seeds. 



N°. 208. PI. VI, fig. 6. '/ 2 . Mïre. Nâcheibe; hard, dry pièce of red clay, cone-shaped, with rounded 



point and margins; near the top, impressed with fingertop and nail, an encircling, superficial line, 



6 — 7 m. m. broad, from which at 4 places similar lines descend to lower encircling line. Manufactured 



by women, intended for export. Mixed with water or oil, used as a pigment. Weight 648 gram. 

 N°. 209. PL VII, fig. 9. '/ 3 . Jôbjobè. Nâcheibe: Turbo marmoratus L. containing red clay, mïre, pre- 



pared with cocoa-nut oil ; the opening of the shell closed by a plug of vegetable fibres. The contents 



used as a hair paint, had at first the consistency of soft butter. 

 N°. 210. PI. VII, fig. 10. '/ 2 . Tobâdi; tress of hair of a woman, consisting of spirally twisted hair, stuck 



together with red clay and forming a heavy, hard tress. 

 N°. 211. PL VII, fig. 11. '/ 2 . Tarfia; plait of hair, plaited from 10 spirally twisted tresses, from 



a Papuan, called Mêrâsimâ, wearing 14 of thèse plaits, tied up together. Fig. 28, man in the middle 



and PL L, figs. 1 and 2. 

 N°. 212. PL VII, fig. 12. 1 j r Pïk. Wâri; tress of hair, lower end split and each part together with a small 



strip of bark fibres spirally twisted and passed through 4 large, white beads, prevented from slipping 



off by a pièce of red calico. Above the split another 2 white beads. Bought and eut from a young 



man, from whose head it was hanging down in front of and near the left ear. 

 N°. 213. Adu dobrè. Kwatisoré; bamboo cylinder, carved with 6 encircling bands of curls and reversed 



coils, which in the broadest band are placed partly in triangular spaces. Manufactured by the men, 



worn in the hairdress by the women; 6.5 X 3-5 c - m > 

 N°. 214. PL VI, figs. 7. '/-2 an d 7 a - 1 U- Adu dobrè. Kwatisoré; as before, a narrow, carved band, with 



perpendicular and horizontal reversed coils, a broad band with obliquely placed ones. Use of this 



and the next numbers as with N°. 213. 

 N°. 215. Adu dobrè. Kwatisoré; as before, 4 bands of hooks and curls; very greasy; 5.3X34 cm. 

 N°. 216. Adu dobrè. Kwatisoré; as before, along each of the margins a narrow band and between 



both 7 erect spaces, the whole carved with curl-shaped ornaments; 7.1X3-4 c - m - 

 N°. 217. Adu dobrè. Kwatisoré; set of three, each 8cm. long, and together in a bamboo, 28cm. long 



and of 2.9 cm. diameter. Two finished and carved with two encircling bands, between which 4 inclined 



spaces, the whole with curls and reversed coils; the deeper portions black. 

 N°. 21S. Tâàr. Ingrâs; two irregular, small pièces of pumice stone, from man's bag N°. 634; used in 



pulling out the hairs. 

 N°." 219. PL VIII, fig. 6. '/ 2 . Tobâdi; four sets of combined feathers, the lower part formed out of a tail 



