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figures) whether perhaps they were worn as talismans. The saw (serra) of a sawfish (N°. 554) 

 was offered to me as a house ornament, and not used as elsewhere as a formidable weapon. 

 Both the stuffed and painted fish skins (N os . 555 — 556, PL XXIII, fig. 1) were hanging simply 

 as ornaments in a private house. The fish figure (N°. 557, PI. XXIII, fig. 2) and the crocodile 

 figure (N°. 559, PL XIX, fig. 9), manufactured from the leafsheath of the sago palm, were 

 obtained from the eastern temple of Waba, which building has however more the purpose 

 of a watch-house. The crocodile has the broadening of the snout in front, spoken of on pag. 146; 

 the cross lines covered with longitudinal lines indicate the scales; the drawing in the middle 

 is however unintelligible to me. N os . 560 — 563 (PL XIX, figs. 3 — 6) two dog's and two 

 pig's figures were obtained in this house. The interprétation of thèse animais is not always 

 clear in the Papuan art ; the indications are by the Papuans themselves. Where a scrotum 

 is represented on an animal's figure, a dog is generally meant, where the snout is round and flat in 

 front generally a pig. Coloured wooden birds' figures (N os . 564 — 565, PL XIX, fig. 8) were hanging 

 at Ingrâs in a private house and at Thaë in the house of assembly; hère several of thèse birds, 

 represented as flying, uncoloured and manufactured from one single pièce of white wood, were 

 suspended by a pièce of rope from the rafters; I could not find out what their meaning was. The 

 same is the case with the human figures (N os . 566 — 571, PL XIX, figs. 1, 2 and 7; PL XVIII, figs. 4 

 and 5) maie and female. They were produced from the houses and I never found anything 

 of the sort carried about on the person ; — perhaps they represent deceased relatives or perhaps 

 spirits. N°. 567 shows the joint représentation of a human being and a snake. 



Of N°. 570 it was said, that it should remain suspended in one of the men's watch- 

 houses. N°. 572 (PL XV, figs. 1 and 2) finally, a carved and painted plank in the shape of 

 the blade of an oar, again from the interior of a house of Ingrâs, gives a combination of 

 représentations, amongst which the middle figure was said to represent a Varanus, from. The 

 object reminds me of what HaDDON [1901, 103] describes of Kiwai Island, viz.: "an oval 

 board about three feet in length, hung up in houses to bring good luck". 



SUSPENSORY HOOKS. 



N°- 533- C hanj au. Sàgeisârâ; out of yellow brown wood of low spec. grav., anchor-shaped, thick 1.5, 

 long 20.5 cm., both arms pointed, tumed up 8 cm., with a reach of 7 cm.; "shank", paired off 

 round, with 3 circulai" relief bands, has near the broadened end an opening, in which a 40 cm. long 

 rattan strip, kèchè, to which is strung, the round side upwards, a half cocoa nut shell. dàduâ, pierced 

 in the middle. 



N\ 534. PL XVII, fig. 12. 1 j 7 . C hanj au. Sâgeisârâ; hook-shaped. from a branch; lower end of "shank" 

 carved into an animal's head, with eyes and nostrils, the point of the hook protruding out of the 

 mouth; along the point a dog's figure, chonje, reaching with the head up to the above mentioned 

 animal's head; "shank" continued in 2 dog's figures, heads downwards; higher up with another hook ; 

 top forniing an eye, through which rattan strip, chè. Found in temple. 



N°. 535. PI. XVII. fig. 13. '/ 7 . Chanjau. Nâcheibe; from yellow brown wood, ± 2 cm. thick, "shank" 

 broadened at top opening (cracked, repaired with lashings), carved on both sides with 2 eye orna- 

 ments, between 4 pairs of spirals. The body with horizontal, encircling row of 13 carved eye orna- 

 ments and triangles. Both cylindrical points carved into a maie and a female figure, moplike hair of 



