. The history of the world; a survey of a man's record. all cock is seen between theteeth of the face of the mask, a second stands on the top of the head. Fig. 7. Carved pole from New Ireland. On the top, a human figure, with large wing-shapedears, which is holding a bird in its hands and pressing it to its breast; on its face are paintedlizards, two black and one white ; beneath, snakes, birds, and fishes. Fig. 8. Carved pole from New Ireland ; probably in memory of a woman who died inchildbirth. (Of. F. V. Luschan, Beitriige zur Vblkerkunde der deutschen Schutzgebiete. Berlin, 1897.) Fig. 9.
. The history of the world; a survey of a man's record. all cock is seen between theteeth of the face of the mask, a second stands on the top of the head. Fig. 7. Carved pole from New Ireland. On the top, a human figure, with large wing-shapedears, which is holding a bird in its hands and pressing it to its breast; on its face are paintedlizards, two black and one white ; beneath, snakes, birds, and fishes. Fig. 8. Carved pole from New Ireland ; probably in memory of a woman who died inchildbirth. (Of. F. V. Luschan, Beitriige zur Vblkerkunde der deutschen Schutzgebiete. Berlin, 1897.) Fig. 9. Carving from New Ireland ; showing a large eagle, which grips a snake. Probablya symbolic representation of heaven and earth, to be compared with the Indian Gardda withthe Nagas. Fig. 10. Carved and painted plank from New Ireland; in the centre a human figure betweentwo fishes. Cf. Fig. 2 of the coloured plate Specimens of Micronesian Carving. (The originals of all the objects represented on this plate are in the Royal Ethnological Museum at Berlin.). /.unJuii. ir« //tiiitmuiiii (PflTlly from F. V. LuBchans BcitriiBe > SPECIMENS OF MELANESlAN CARVING AVui Iort; thad i C- /^> ^nt] HISTORY OF THE WORLD 305 tributed to that bloodiness of the battles (both among the natives themselves andagainst the whites), which distinguishes its history from that of all other primitiveraces. The political consequences, from want of any suitable antagonist, couldnaturally not be so important here as in South Africa. Nevertheless, the compar-atively rigid organisation of the majority of the Polynesians is certainly to a largedegree the result of their tactics. 7. THE POPULATION OF OCEANIAA. The Anthropological Position of the Oceanians Ethnology separates the population of Oceania into three large groups: theMelanesians, who inhabit the inner belt of coast from New Gumea to New Cale-donia and Fiji; the Microuesians, on the Caroline, Marianne, Pelew, Marshall, andGilbert islands, a
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