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this furniture is treasured by the Papuans. A spécimen of Sageisârâ (N°. 533), has half a 

 cocoa-nut shell pierced in the middle, strung on to the suspending string, the convexity 

 upwards, preventing mice, rats, lizards, etc. from reaching the hook. Very often a disk-shaped 

 pièce of wood (N°. 537), which FlNSCH [1888 — 93, 196] also reports of K. W. Land, is used 

 for this purpose, but the cleverest défensive apparatus invented, was the one I saw at Asé, a 

 pear-shaped calabash, both pôles pierced and strung on to the suspending cord with the thick 

 end upwards. Not a single mouse risks itself over such an exceedingly hard, slippery surface. 

 The other hook from Sageisârâ (N°. 534, PI. XVII, fig. 12), out of naturally bent wood, is 

 ornamented with three carved quadrupeds, which are intended to represent dogs and again 

 furnish a clear proof how the nature and shape of the material rule the products of plastic 

 art; without the information obtained, one would hâve been more inclined to take thèse 

 animais, with their long bodies, long, .stretched-out tails and short legs, for lizards. Both 

 hooks of Nâcheibe show the type most common in thèse parts, with more or less cylindrical 

 points, with N°. 535 (PI. XVII, fig. 13) shaped into a maie and a female human figure, the 

 further meaning of which has remained unknown to me, but otherwise like N°. 536 (PL XVII, 

 fig. ,14), entirely covered with a regularly carved ornament. N°. 537 (PL XVII, fig. 1 1) originates 

 from the temple of Kajô Entsâu, where the bamboo flûtes, ail in baskets, were suspended 

 by similar hooks ; the protecting plank is carved and painted and was indicated by the name, 

 v chbrà", of which word I remark that it sounds phonetically very much like the name of 

 the apron hère used by some men. 



The collection contains two more spécimens (N°. 538 and N°. 54O, PL XVII, fig. 11) 

 of Ingrâs, which, like the object of Asé (N°. 539, PL XVII, fig. 10), are at once noticable by 

 the carved loop coils, so customary in the ornaments of Humboldt Bay and especially on 

 Lake Sentâni. N°. 540 is also a fine old pièce, with a disk-shaped enlargement near the 

 top end, possibly also intended as a protecting plank against vermin, both points of the hook 

 again shaped into figures of différent sex. N°. 541, finally, was taken by me, as a curions 

 proof of ethnographical degeneration, from the owner, who had manufactured it from a plank 

 of a petroleum case and painted it, which certainly will never occur on the real hooks; 

 it is an imitated, ethnographical, commercial article. As seen above, lofts occur for storage, 

 as also reported by Hagen [1899, 203] of K. W. Land. At Angâdi ail sorts of objects were 

 placed on the roof-ties, and very often small objects are simply stuck obliquely between the 

 horizontal beams of the inside of the roof itself. 



Amongst the objects which are also met with in the houses of the Papuans as neces- 

 sary parts of the furniture, are also the head supports, used when sleeping, and, according 

 to Von LUSCHAN (KRIEGER [1899, 472]), nowhere in the world so common as just in New 

 Guinea, although in British New Guinea (D' ALBERTIS [1880, I 393], CHALMERS [1885, 162], 

 MACGREGOR [1897, 50], ANNUAL REPORT [1897 — 98, 25]) and on the upper reaches of the Ramu 

 River (NACHRICHTEN [1897, 64]) thehammock appears to be generally in use. Certainly the 

 Papuan can manage without such a support ; when he lies down to sleep on his stomach, he rests 

 with the temples or foreheàd on the-arms folded across the head. When lying on his side or back he 

 can, as an inveterate sleeper, be content with any object, which has about the desired heigth, 

 varying with the supports of the présent collection between 11.5 and 20 cm. Whether however 

 the use of.such head supports is allowed to ail young persons, as reported by DE CLERCQ. 



