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and a grey row; the middle set sometimes contains more stripes. With N°. 640 foreign yellow, 

 red and blue thread has been used. One yellow row, composed of the "figure eight" stitch, 

 is introduced between the others, as per fig. 119, whilst between two red rows, one blue one 

 has been worked, as per fig. 120. Amongst the bead ornament of thèse bags the currency 



Fig. 



Stitches on men's bag N°. 640. 



Fig. 120. Stitches on men's bag N°. 640. 



beads are also met with. The headman of Tobâdi now and then wore a srosror (fig. 143) 

 decorated with so many and such valuable beads, that the bag itself was of comparatively 

 little value. Ail this to a certain extent indicates the dignity of the man, who has the charge 

 of the beads, which are the property of the community (see Chapter VII). It was impossible 

 to procure this bag with our means of barter. Indeed a well decorated srosror combines hère 

 ail that is most valuable amongst the personal ornaments and other preciosa, possessed by the 

 Papuan. An excessive décoration with dogs' teeth, as in K. W. Land, is not usual in Netherl. N. G. 

 The smallest kind of men's bags, seen on the north coast to the east of the 

 Mamberamno River (N os . 642 — 644), is not carried from the shoulder but round the neck, 

 hanging down in front of the chest, sometimes with the sling tied on to a separate neckstring. 

 They are only used for holding tobacco and siri, whilst the lime réceptacle is then carried 

 under the arm or in a larger bag. They are also made with the stitch of fig. 117, for which 

 reason N°. 642 (PI. XXI, fig. 3) of Asé is also called srôsrô. Although exclusively intended 

 for men, they are made by the women, by hand, without a weaving wood being used and 

 out of the fibres of a plant, called pâlaiQ), specially cultivated for this purpose. The name 

 chèndàri which was given at Tobâdi to such a small bag (N°. 643), no doubt points to the 

 way in which it is carried (see N° 5 . 388 — 391), i. e. "on the breast" ; FlNSCH [1888 — 93, 205] 

 looks upon thèse small bags as breast ornaments. When empty, they are quite flat. Ornamented 

 with two or three sets of coloured stripes, they are often deeper than they are broâd, but 

 otherwise right-angled, except that, with N°. 642 one "letting-out" and with N os . 643 and 644 



