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must hâve cost a great deal of labour. Some very old ones, sinàia, the people shortly 

 declared, were not to be sold. They generally ail lay in the watch-houses, ôbè, on the 

 horizontal tie-beams, niau, about 7 feet above the floor. I never saw the men carry those 

 lances as ordinary arms; the men «'110 every day rowed to the gardens to protect the women, 

 only had their bow and some arrows lying before them in their little boats, Isja. Probably 

 this lance may also be found in other villages on Lake Sentâni ; my not seeing it again 

 during our rapid course across the lake, nothwithstanding the men were everywhere armed, 

 proves its not being used as a weapon of war. In Humboldt Bay it is not used, that is a 

 fact; nor did I find it in the temples of Nâcheibe and Sageisârâ, places on the north coast, 

 where the language has a striking resemblance to that of Asé. I am sorry not to be able 

 to answer the question how a number of men, armed only with such lances (fig. 99) go 

 boar hunting. I also found shorter spécimens, which point to a différence in the position or 

 action of the hunters. 



The arrows used for boar hunting generally hâve a bamboo point; the Tobâdi people 

 hâve three différent kinds: ubrè, mankaini and jedri, distinct from each other by breadth and 

 shape of the furrow. Among the jèdri I found another form, called rugwè (N°. 760, 764), with 

 a wooden point in which was one row of barbs. Of course those sorts are differently used : I 

 only know the lengthwise furrowed bamboo point causes a heavier loss of blood than the 

 ornamented wooden point, (see also MACGREGOR [1897, 70]). 



The transport of the spoils takes place in a festive mood. At Asé some boats carried 

 it to the watch-house, accompanied by songs heard from afar and by a regular beating with 

 the oars. At Tobàdi the dead boar was slowly transported to the village in a boat, zvàc/ie, 

 adorned with fresh palm leaves fastened erect and accompanied by a whole fleet of zvdche. 

 A many-voiced song rang over the water, stronger than I ever heard from the Tobâdi people, 

 interrupted every now and then, but intonated again with great unity of time. The fleet 

 landed at the platform (pag. 142), the boar was carried into the temple and one of the palm- 

 leaves was stuck into the eaves near the entrance, close to others which were standing there, 

 probably also representing hunting trophies (figs. 102, 183, 200). Later on at the feast the 

 marksman was pointed out to us; his success seemed to be a great honour for him and in a 

 way he was celebrated as the host of the feast, the spoils being consumed the very saine 

 evening amidst dancing and music. Probably the marksman host claims a right to the teeth 

 X \ 312 — 321, PI. XII, fig. 20), and the tail as ornaments. An Ajâpo man had tied a boar's 

 tail with two strips of the rump skin round his upper arm ; (see also N°. 519, PI. XI, fig. 7). The 

 Tugeri wear the scrotum on either arm and sometimes even wear a great many; the hairy strips 

 of skin which they wear on their breasts also corne from the boar's tail; strange enough, 

 the women who never také part in hunting, also wear this breast ornament hère, consequently 

 the right of wearing it seems to be no personal right of the marksman (see pag. 85). 



At Tobàdi the boar skulls are hung up in the temples. The Manikion people decorate 

 the interior of their dwellings with them. In the dwelling at Mapâr which, as I was told, 

 had been built a short time ago, I counted more than thirty, which made me suppose part 

 of the skulls had been removed from a previous dwelling. I should give the same explanation to the 

 fact that MEYER [1873, 308], in his journey from Geelvink Bay to the Gulf of MacCluer, counted 

 in one, evidently new, hut 83 lower jaws of Sus papuensis. The reason they treasure 



