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Tavelins (for fishing; see Chapter IV, N" s . 590 — 592). 



N°. 1249. Sus, (uruâr?) Tobâdi; round, smooth, palm wood head, in cane shaft, bound with reed; 

 nodes, except i st , ringed; length of head 33, shaft 180 cm. 



N°. 1250. Sendom. Tobâdi; circle of 5 smooth prongs, round a central shorter one, held together by 

 4 plaited, rattan bands, fitted into shaft as above; length of prongs db 36, shaft 160 cm. 



N°. 1251. Sendom ckârim. Tobâdi; 3 triangular prongs, edges barbed, inner edge of one prong un- 

 barbed; bound by 6 bands; shaft as above, wound round with rattan; length of prongs 46, shaft 146 cm. 



N°\ 1252 — 57. Sendom chârim. Tobâdi; circle of 4 or 5 prongs, ail, or except one, barbed along 

 edges of circumferential surface and diverging by plug of vegetable material or by shorter, smooth, 

 central prong (with N°. 1257 also with 2 rows of barbs); 4 — 7 bands; fitted in shaft with rattan 

 or reed; prongs 38 — 45, shaft 153 — 180 cm. 



N°. 1258. PI. XXVII, fig. 41. '/g- Sendom chârim. Tobâdi; circle of 3 prongs, notched on circum- 

 ferential surfaces; fastened by rattan along cylindric, wooden shaft, tassels of cockatoo feathers, jab 

 abrd, coronet of side feathers of bird of paradise, tiare, and red and green calico, glued on; shaft 

 146 cm. long, black, with white circles; prongs 36 cm. Exclusively for festivities. 



N°\ 1259 — 60. Sâwiï. Jakari; like N *. 1250 and 1251 respect. 



Shields. 



N°. 1261. PI. XXVI, fig. 14. '/,(,. Tari. Thaë; of 1.5 — 2 cm. thick wood, rectangular (middle of top 

 with projection, like reversed frustum), almost fiât, somewhat above the middle with 2 holes (for 

 carrying-loop), in left top corner a hole ; 5 horizontal rows of carved eye ornaments and dancing 

 human figures (?). Left behind by Arâ people in the attack on Thaë. 



N°. 1262. PI. XXVI, fig. 2. I / la . Tari. Thaë; as last, thickness 2 — 3 cm., 2 holes near the middle (left 

 one highest) with loop of bark 42 cm. long; at the back of left top corner a pierced ridge with 

 bark loop, to admit 4 fingers; along borders eye ornaments, dancing human figures and triangles with 

 curved tops; in the middle 2 Systems of concentrical semi-circles and 12 triangles as above. At left 

 top corner a broken-off arrow head has pierced through 5 cm. 



N°. 1263. PL XXVI, fig. 13. '/is- Tari. Thaë; as last, thickness 2 cm.; holes like N°. 1262, loop 

 ± 30 cm., at the back of left top corner pierced ridge as above, without loop; carved with 2 sets 

 of 4 loop-shaped figures along a central band of jagged ovals, and with 2 crocodile figures and one snake. 



N°. 1264. PI. XXVI, fig. 12. '/ ls . Tari. Thaë; as last (projection broken off), pierced ridge at both top 

 corners; ornamented like N°. 1263, no snake but with hourglass-shaped figure. 



N°. 1265. PL XXVI, fig. 11. '/is- Tari. Thaë; thickn. 1.5 cm., pierced ridge at left top" corner; front 

 concave; carved with 3 large eye ornaments, partly jagged; relief parts coloured red and black. 



N°. 1266 (see fig. 169). Adai. Wâri; flat, oblong square, of light wood; middle of front surface with 

 elliptical (13 X 8 cm.) projection, 9 cm. high, hollow at the back, a vertical bar being retained 

 as handle; 16 horizontal, rattan plaitings, and 3 vertical ones; 176X36X 1 — 2 c - m - 



N°. 1267. Adai. Wâri; like N°. 1266, near projection coloured black, along this and .along top and 

 bottom edges horizontal bands of dark red zigzag lines; length 164, breadth 30, thickness 1 — 2 cm. 



N°. 1268. PI. XXVI, fig. 1. 1 /, . Ko nôjâ. Asé; bamboo, nôja, split between 2 nodes, î, in 6 longitu- 

 dinal strips, bulged out and containing an empty cocoa-nut, ko, fastened by strips of fibre, sa; at each 

 node (one broken) a bundle of leaf strips, nai. Found in community house; used as war banner. 



