ARMS. 



2 4 5 



ment of the shaft of arrows in Sëkà "burnt-in". At Asé, however, I did see a man, who 

 was preparing arrow shafts, scraping off the upper skin lineally with the sharp edge of a 

 knife, whilst he then pulled the shafts through the fiâmes of a woodfire, in order to straighten 

 out of them, during the heated stage, ail the false bends, and in this way the scratched-in lines 

 became somewhat dark. Very often, however, the ornament is smeared over with a separate, 

 black pigment. The ist internode is decorated in H. B. with very différent ornaments, on the 

 other internodes one meets with a great many lengthwise lines, which converge in pairs towards 

 the front in a sharp angle, forming chevrons, as illustrated by ERDWEG [1902, 325, fig. 225b] 

 of Tumleo, sometimes with a snake-like undulating line between both legs. Figs. 149 — 151 

 give illustrations of ornamentation of arrow shafts of Lake Sentâni. 



The real ornamental arrows serve exclusively for feasts, and do not agrée with 



Fig. 149. 3 / 4 . Ornament of the 

 2 nti internode of N°. 939; Asé. 



Fig. 150. 3 / 4 . Ornament of the 

 i st internode of N°. 994; Asé. 



Fig. 151. 3 / 4 . Ornament of the 

 l st internode of N°. 1022; Dôjo. 



any practical calculations ; thus the point is often made of a light kind of wood, which can 

 be easily worked in long and thin, fine barbs. The beautiful arrows, which UHEE [1886, 7, 

 PI. VI, figs. 2 and 3] illustrâtes of Kordo and of which the collection also contains several, 

 are certainly not intended for ordinary use. The same holds good, when (as common in H. B.) 

 many coronets of feathers and feather bunches are fastened at or near the head. Besides lime 

 (this in the intaglio portions), soot, red and yellow clay are used to ornament the head, but 

 also a reddish brown liquid, called tree-gum by De CLERCQ and SCHMELTZ [1893, 115], 

 mentioned by Von ROSENBERG [1875, 88] of the Arfak, as a kind of vegetable poison, of 

 which they would not divulge the secret. That it serves as an ornament, is évident from the 

 fact, that it does not occur on the most simple arrow heads (SCHMELTZ [1896, 115]), and also 



