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background is often graved also at its margin. Symmetry is evidently striven after, but 
with the appliances available the execution falls short here and there of the design, 
but these ornaments are very beautiful nevertheless. Closely similar ones are worn in 
the Solomon Islands, and also in New Hanover, and curiously enough in the far-off 
Marquesas Islands. 
Fig. 254. — Admiralty Island Double Bird Bowls carved in wood, the property of J. Y. Buchanan, Esq. 
A regular style of ornamentation is preserved for each class of ornaments, weapons, 
and implements. Thus no Ovulum shells were seen with curved patterns like those on the 
lime gourds. Both these and the bracelets bore simple patterns of diagonal lines graved 
and blacked. The spears, moreover, never bore curves. 
The skulls of turtles suspended in the club houses are ornamented with patterns 
painted in the three usual colours (PI. Iv. fig. 1). The human skulls are likewise decorated, 
and some have eyes of pearl or Cardium shell inserted into the orbits on a background 
of black clay. 1 
1 Report on the Human Crania, Zool, Chall. Exp., part xxix., pi. iii., 1884, 
