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decoration of combs, pipes, drums, spatulse, and other articles 
manufactured by the people in the British part of the island. In 
the plates which illustrate Professor Mantegazza’s memoir* the 
chevron ornament can be seen to have been used, though sparingly, 
for the decoration of several of the objects which he has figured. 
Group 2 consisted of designs in which limbs radiated from a 
common centre. The most perfect pattern of this kind was found 
in one of the young skulls, and consisted of four radiating limbs, 
each about 30 mm. long (fig. 6). One was directed upwards to about 
an inch from the bregma, one downwards to about the same distance 
from the nasion, and the remaining two horizontally outwards, — one 
in the direction of each temporal curved line. The common centre 
from which the limbs proceeded was at about the middle of the 
frontal bone, and was marked by two incised circles, one within 
the other. Each limb was triangular in shape, and was differ- 
entiated from the bone outside it by an incised diagonal line on 
each side, which met at the apex of the limb, whilst at the base 
the boundary line of one limb was continuous with that of the 
adjoining limbs. Within this boundary line two pairs of similar 
incised lines were present. 
In a second specimen the radiated figure had only three tri- 
angular limbs, the two longest of which were 22 mm. each. One 
limb was directed downwards to the front of the glabella, and the 
others downwards and outwards towards the external orbital 
processes. The centre of radiation was marked by two incised 
circles, one within the other. The boundary line of each limb in 
this specimen enclosed only a single pair of incised lines. Instead 
of a fourth limb radiating upwards towards the bregma, a pattern, 
distinct from the radiated figure, had taken its place (fig. 7). It con- 
sisted on each side of three incised lines placed one within the other, 
which, starting close together from the external orbital process, ran 
upwards and inwards, to become continuous with each other in the 
middle of the frontal, the outermost line being prolonged upwards 
for 14 mm. before it joined its fellow in a point. Immediately 
above the junction three short horizontal and two diagonal lines 
had been cut in the bone. The radiated designs described in this 
group, though quite distinctive, are in some respects affiliated to 
* Studii Antropologici ed Etnografici sulla Nuova Guinea , Firenze, 1877. 
