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Fig. 138. Boat of Wakobi. 



is fixed to increase the height, the foreward one, however, often carries an extra orna- 

 ment (N°. 66j) ; carved ornament on the side walls is entirely wanting. On each side a float 

 is carried of about the same length as the craft and only pointed and somewhat raised ia 

 front. Six fairly long cross pôles 

 are fastened on the hull, (they 

 also serve for carrying différent 

 things on), ail reaching from one 

 float to the other, whilst close 

 to the ends the vertical wooden 

 pins are tied, which are stuck 

 into each of the floats, as shown 

 in fig. 138 of Wakobi. This model 

 appears to be adopted in Geel- 

 vink Bay and also on Wiak for 

 ail the larger craft. The one of 

 Wakobi has a platform of longi- 

 tudinal laths fixed on the two 

 middle of the cross pôles and 

 curved upwards, both to the left 



and to the right, to form a vertical railing, about 50 cm. in height. On the biggest of thèse 

 dug-outs, eut with iron axes out of the largest giants of the forest, small roofs are built 

 (fig. 139). Fig. I40repre- 

 sents the real Numfôr 

 type, resembling the 

 model collected by De 

 Clercq at Ansus (De 

 Clercq and Schmeltz 

 [1893, 94, N°. 450, PI. 

 XXIV, fig. 5]), even the 

 peculiar wooden érection 

 immediately behind the 

 ornamental prow, is not 

 wanting; the sides having 

 coloured figures, and in 

 front with a figure like 

 N°. 667 of Wâri. How- 

 ever, smaller craft are 

 also used hère, with or 

 without raised boards of 

 stalks of sago leaves, in 

 front, with a somewhat 

 rising stem; they only carry one outrigger, on starboard (fig. 141). 



The paddles used hère hâve often at the end of the handle and eut out of the 



Fig. 139. Boat of Geelvink Bay. 



