IÔO G. A. J. VAN DER SANDE. 



the felling of the . dancing tree. At Manokwari, the oldest Netherlands settlement, where 

 there had been much hunting, one could, in 1903, often hear the whistling of Paradisea 

 from the edge of the wood. 



N°. 573- Otjè. Kwatisoré; bamboo cylinder, 16 X 3 c.m., lower part scraped and blackened; the 

 sexangular stopper, mado orè, of yellow-brown, corky wood, fitting with 2,5 c.m. long, cylindric 

 part in tube. Used to store percussions, dopis, -(corruption of the Netherlands "dopjes"). 



N°. 574. Soâm. Asé; boar lance of heavy palm wood, soâm, length 5.15 m., square, with 4 lengthwise 

 ribs, ka, each eut near the point, jomo, over 1.5.111. of the length into a number of barbs, kara; 

 more to the middle a carved ornament (fig. 100a), behind which, near the centre of gravity, 

 13 narrow, plaited, rattan rings, sari; greatest thickness 3 cm., at the end thinner and at 15 c.m. 

 from the end, koba, a narrow circular notch. 



N°. 575. Soâj?i. Asé: as N°. 574, length 4.25 m., carved ornament (fig. 100b), 6 rattan rings, no cir- 

 cular notch. 



N°. 576. Soâm. Asé; as N°. 574, length only 2.04 m., max. thickness 3 c.m. in the middle; front part 

 over 55 c.m. square and hooked as above, behind it, over t,^ c.m. of the length, carved with 5 

 circular bands, each of 4 loop coils ; 3 plaited rings. 



Besides hunting, also FlSHING supplies the want of animal food. According to the 

 différent sorts of fishing-tackle found everywhere about Netherlands N. G. (DE CLERCQ and 

 SCHMELTZ [1893, 100]) it cannot be true what BlRO [1901, 66], in contradiction to FlNSCH 

 [1888 — 93, 190], writes about K. W. Land, that fishery is no "Nahrungsquelle erster Ordnung", 

 but to a certain extent only a pastime of the men. Since then ERDWEG [1902, 330] describes 

 fishery as one of the principal occupations of the Tumleo (Berlin Harbour). 



As to Humboldt Bay I already quoted BlNK [1897, 147], who says that the inhabitants 

 are never withhout fish a single day ; and, to the information of KONING [1903, 268]: "the 

 native of Jôtëfa is, first of ail, a fisherman; he seldom goes out hunting and occupies himself 

 very little with agriculture," — I can add from my own expérience: "not any practical occu- 

 pation of the men so much requires their time, dévotion and strength as fishery, which is 

 hère indeed the principal source of animal food'\ The reason of this peculiarity is to be 

 found in the natural formation of the Jôtëfa Bay, the inner bay of Humboldt Bay, and in 

 which lie extensive banks, partly dry in the low spring tide. When thèse banks, at half tide, 

 are covered with from three to four feet of water, the occasion occurs to catch the fish in 

 enclosed spaces of long nets, ± 4 m. broad, provided with sinkers along one edge and floats 

 along the other. Perhaps similar nets are meant by ROBIUÉ VAN DER Aa [1879, 88] speaking 

 of large drag-nets used at Ansus; at ail events the opinion of DE CLERCQ and SCHMELTZ [1893, 100] 

 that east of the Arimoa Islands fishery is not carried on with large nets, is a wrong one. 



The description which BlNK [1897, 147] gives of this method of fishing requires some 

 modification and supplément. The course of things is as follows: A number of 30 — 45 men's 

 boats, waçke, each manned with from 2 to 4 persons, proceeding in a line of a hundred or more M. 

 in breadth, row to a bank and when a shoal of fish is seen in front of the fieet the two wings 

 advance rapidly amidst shrieks and shouts and, rowing towards each other, fofm a large circle. In 

 doing so the long nets, regularly coiled up upon the platforms of several boats are gradually 



