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COMPENDIUM OF GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL 
bone, sometimes of wood, and in Eastern New Guinea 
two boar’s tusks are often worn in this fashion, with 
their tips turned up¬ 
wards. The comb, 
especially among the 
purer race, is one of 
the most character¬ 
istic features of his 
decoration. It is made 
of a long piece of 
bamboo split at one 
end into prongs, while 
the other projects 
beyond the forehead 
of the wearer to a 
distance sometimes of 
a couple of feet or 
more, and is transfixed 
with feathers of the 
parrot or other birds, 
or by splinters of 
bamboo bearing discs 
of pith. Necklaces 
are worn in almost 
every part, generally 
of small shells, teeth, 
or bones; they often 
bear a large valve of 
the pearl-oyster or the 
Papuan op dorei bay. snowy Ovulum ovum 
as a pendant. Conus 
millepunctatus and other shells are ground down into 
bracelets and armlets, but grass or fibre is also much used 
for arm-bands, and these serve in lieu of pockets, beneath 
