286 G. A. J. VAN DER SANDE. 



Echidna (ScHMELTZ [1895, 165, PL XV, figs. 1 and 2], PREUSS [1897, 93]) does not 

 occur in K. W. Land (PôCH [1905, 450]) nor in the neighbourhood of H. B.; Tobàdi people 

 did not recognise the illustration shown to them. 



On the left of fig. 177 triangular figures occur, vvith a curl on the top. Such 

 figures with a shorter, hook-shaped curl also occur on the bark girdle N°. 407, on the object 

 N°. 572, PI. XV, figs. 1 and 2, and on shield N°. 1262, PL XXVI, fig. 2, and can also be 

 seen as an ornament on the "alol" of Tumleo (MEYER and PARKINSON [1900, PL 16]). They 

 hâve been taken by PREUSS [1899, 174 and 175, figs. 4 — 5] for birds' heads with strongly 

 curved beaks. Loeber [1903, 47, figs. b b, 4 and 5], however, looks upon them as volcanos 

 with a column of smoke at the top. Girdle N°. 407 shows triangles with two hooks, bent in 

 différent directions like the fig. b b, 4 of LOEBER. I, however, do not believe that the people 

 of H. B. would use volcanos in their ornamental art. 



The abêkwe (see p. 45) can be distinguished in the left part of fig. 177, also the 

 crab (see p. 44), at the foot of the figure; the barbed drawing at the nght, I guess, 

 represents a shell of Murex or P ter oc er as. 



D'ALBERTIS [1880, II, 66] and THOMSON [1892, 154] give of the Fly River spécimens 

 of figures eut in the bark of live trees; of Netherl N. G., LEON [1884, 584] mentions imprints 

 on rocks, also Van Braam Morris [1884, 588], Ellis [1888, 19, fig. 1] and De Clercq 

 [1889b, 1676]; some of them (hands!) probably belonged to Mohammedan graves. By the présent 

 expédition, spiral figures, scratched in the sandstone, were seen on the small island of Sosena 

 (Lake Sentâni, near Poe). On rocks, near the gardens of Tobâdi, crocodile-like figures had 



been drawn with red clay. Drawings with lime 

 were found on the back wall of the chief's house 

 at Angâdi (see fig. 80, p. 134); amongst thèse 

 drawings (see background of fig. 201) occurred that 

 of fig. 178, presumably the illustration of a war 

 canoë, containing one headman with three others. 



Fig. 178. '/jo. Drawing on a wall at Angâdi. . . 



Y his îs certainly intended as a mémento of a suc- 

 cessful excursion of war. Real picture-writing — pictography — recording events, and giving 

 by a séries of pictures a connected story of the course of an event, does not appear to 

 occur on N. G. (Haddon [1894, 65]). 



