NAVIGATION. 



201 



On the cross pôles, which in H. B. also reach a little over the left side of the craft, 

 the plat for m is generally placed, which in this bay, on the side opposite to the outrigger 

 is often provided with a low railing, turned in fig. 129 towards the spectator, in figs. 130 

 and 133 to be seen to the left. 



This railing is the last remnant of the large, 1—1.5 m - ni gh frame works, which are placed to the 

 right and left on the p atform of [the large crafts of K. W. Land (Meyer and Parkinson [1S94, PI. 44 

 and 45; 1900, PI. 10], Hacen [1899, 

 PL 33], Erdweg [1902, ■ ; 4 , 366]), 

 for stowing away mat? ials, and 

 which in Oinâke and more western 

 parts, are entirely missing. At Tanah 

 Merah and on Liki (fig. 136), there 

 is even no longer any question of 

 a platform proper and the two cross 

 pôles neither reach hère over the 

 side-plank opposite to the outrigger. 

 The platform, wâkôb, is placed (figs. 



129, 130 and 133) with its length 



exactly between the two cross pôles, 



reaches on both sides outside the 



craft to the extent of 2 or 3 feet, and 



consists of longitudinal palmlaths; 



not transverse as in the Bongu boats 



(Fixsch [i888 a , PL VI, fig. 1]) and 



not of bamboo, as Van der Goes 



[1858, 173] thought; this material 



is entirely lacking on the craft. The 



palmlaths are tied on transverse saplings, samrari, in fig. 129 coming out below and which in turn are 



fastened to the lengthways saplings, which are supported by the wariât. 



The above named railings, rests on a set of thèse lengthways spars and the upper edge is also formed 

 by a couple of thèse, between which, a set of long, diagonal, aiiia, two sets of cross pièces (small 

 trestles) and a few short, vertical pièces of wood, the latter resting with their feet on the samrari, are 

 fastened. This construction, which can be recognised more or less on fig. 129, and to which two 

 rattan lashings, fastened between the lower and the upper set of spars, also belong, is gênerai 

 and could hardly be improved upon. Latéral support ■ is obtained by two transverse spars, samrari, 

 in fig. 130, sticking outside the railing to the left, near fore and after edge of the platform, and 

 descending towards the other side, where they are jammed between two longitudinal spars, lashed 

 on to the cross pôles. Between thèse and another set of spars, fixed i'/ 2 foot farther on the cross pôles, 

 three horizontal, transverse pegs, of which the free ends hâve been carved into an ornament (bird, snake, 

 and fish?) are fastened (see fig. 133) and on which (see also figs. 129 and 130) arrows, bows, spears and 

 sometimes also the mast and the sail are carried. The bird generally represents the hornbill, but N°. 668 

 (PL XXII, fig. 7), originally part of such a peg, is a cassowary, châtuâr, and in fig. 133 the pig can be 

 recognised. The principle of thèse pegs as a depository, is also found elsewhere and they are always 

 omamented; on the craft of Liki (fig. 136) they stick out with curved points, not unlike the 

 heterocercal caudal fin of a shark. In Attack Harbour (Finsch [1888, 336]) their number is only two; 

 hère also the fish ornament (Preuss [1899, PL V, fig. 18]) occurs on them. 



Nova Guinea. III. Ethnography. 26 



Fig. 133. Men's boat, wâche, of Humboldt Bay. 



