. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. EXPLANATION OF PLATE 1. Fish skull, painted with red ocher, kept as a trophy. 2. Belt, or waist circlet, of rattan. 8. Circlet of spiral shells on network, worn on the head or neck. 4. Band of bark, worn over the shoulder, for carrying child. 5. Necklace of shells {Hemicardlum uuedo). 6. Necklace of calyces of mangrove. 7. Pig's skull, painted with red ocher and white clay, kept as a trophy. 8. Human skull, painted with red ocher and wh
. Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Institution. Archives; Discoveries in science. EXPLANATION OF PLATE 1. Fish skull, painted with red ocher, kept as a trophy. 2. Belt, or waist circlet, of rattan. 8. Circlet of spiral shells on network, worn on the head or neck. 4. Band of bark, worn over the shoulder, for carrying child. 5. Necklace of shells {Hemicardlum uuedo). 6. Necklace of calyces of mangrove. 7. Pig's skull, painted with red ocher and white clay, kept as a trophy. 8. Human skull, painted with red ocher and white clay, and ornamented with Den- talium shells, and with Hemicardium and Solarium shells attached to the tem- poral arches; worn in memoriain ])y a relative of the deceased. Sk, Human skull, suspended by cord of bark fiber. 10. duplet made of vertebrae of a half-grown child; worn on the head or about the neck in memorktm by a relative of the dece«ised. 11. Human jawbone, worn like the preceding, ornamented by strings of Devialiuni odogommi. 12. Human jawbone, jjainted, with red, ocher, and ornamented with Hemicardium shells; saspended by network of bark fiber. 13. Circlet of turtle bones, worn about the head or neck. 14. Circlet of vegetable fiber, worn on the head. 15. Woman's belt, made of Pamluiuis amlamauenshun, the ends of the leaves form- ing four tufts, which are worn behind, the outside of the hoop ornamented with transverse markings of red wax paint. Several belts are worn by each woman. 16. Tuft of leavcjj; of MiniiiHopx iiidira; worn by tlie women as an apron, held in piswe by tlie lowest belt. 17. Wristlet made of leaves of Pundtmus (mdamanensimn. 18. Wristlet, or bracelet, similar to the preceding, but ornamented with strings of Dentalium shells. 19. Garter of Pandanus leaves, ornamented with Dentalium shells. 20. Circlet, similar to the preceding. 21. Stems of an orchid {Dendrobium sp.), the yellow skin of which is used to orna- ment cords, and the seizings of
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