POBT BOttY, 
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Costume and Ornaments,— The dresses of the chiefs 
among the natives of Dory consist of the saluer, or short 
drawers of the Mai ays ^ and the kabyaj or loose coat of 
calicoj with a handkerchief tied round the head. The 
common men, and the chiefs themselves when not in the 
presence of strangers, wear only a ckawatj or waist-cloth 
of the bark of the fig, or of the paper-mulberry -tree, 
beaten out like the bark-cloth of the Polynesians, The 
women wear a short petticoat of blue ealico, or short, loose 
drawers, and very rarely any other clothing. The ears 
of both sexes are bored, but the septum of the nose 
is never mutilated. Neither do they adopt the practice 
of raising the flesh of their limbs and bodies by scarifi- 
cations, as is common among the natives of the south and 
south-west coasts of New Guinea ; this practice having 
apparently been superseded among the Dory natives by 
the PoljTiesian custom of tattooing, which is adopted both 
by males and females, the operation being performed by 
young girlsj with the aid of sharp fish-bones and soot, 
Mr. Bruijn Kops observed that the skins of many of the 
natives were marked with scars, which have beeu pro- 
duced by applications of fire ; and from the number of 
these marks which he saw on single individuals, some- 
times as many as ten, he was led to suppose that they 
bad been made from some particular motive, probably 
as a mode of cure, or perhaps as ornaments."* 
Actual cautery is in common use among the more 
savage tribes of this part of the world as a cure for many 
diseaseSj more especially rheumatism, to which they are 
^ Brmjn Kops, " Tijdsekrifi;* p. 177, 
