EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXII. 



Abor and Dafla Hats. 



The specimens, except figs. 3, 9 and 11, are made of cane ornamented with 

 pieces of bear-skin (figs. 1, 2, 4), with fibre dyed red (figs. 1, 2), with bills or skulls of 

 hornbills (figs. 2, 3), with boars' tusks (figs. 2, 4, 5). with feathers (figs. 5), or a strip of 

 horn (fig. 6). Figs. 7 and 8 represent war-helmets strengthened, to turn a sword- 

 cut, by vertical strips of cane. Figs. 3, 9 and 11 represent hats made of skin, either 

 pig-skin, moulded into shape (fig. 9) or of sewn deer-skin (fig. 11). 



Fig. 6 represents a Dafla hat ; the remainder specimens from the Abor country. 



