Handbook to the ethnographical collections . -Typos of spears from Melanesia, a. Fiji Islands (pointed withsting-ray spinosj. b. Fiji Islands, c. New Caleddnia. d. Espiritu Santo,New Hebrides, e. New Ireland (fish-spine barbs). /. Bougainville, SolomonIslands (with flying-fox bone barbs), rj. Florida, Solomon Islands (humanbono ])oint). h. Ysabel, Solomon Islands. 122 OCEANIA on the coast in the Solomons (Florida Islnml). New Britainand New Ireland, Admiralty Islands and New Uuinea, and manyof the villages extend some distance out into the sea. TheTasmanians lived mainly on shell-fish, wild pr
Handbook to the ethnographical collections . -Typos of spears from Melanesia, a. Fiji Islands (pointed withsting-ray spinosj. b. Fiji Islands, c. New Caleddnia. d. Espiritu Santo,New Hebrides, e. New Ireland (fish-spine barbs). /. Bougainville, SolomonIslands (with flying-fox bone barbs), rj. Florida, Solomon Islands (humanbono ])oint). h. Ysabel, Solomon Islands. 122 OCEANIA on the coast in the Solomons (Florida Islnml). New Britainand New Ireland, Admiralty Islands and New Uuinea, and manyof the villages extend some distance out into the sea. TheTasmanians lived mainly on shell-fish, wild produce, and suchgame as they cuuld secure with their primitive weapons; the. Fio. KHi.—Spatulae for lime used in betel-chewing (the central speiimenmade of ttirtle-shell from New Guinea Archipelago. rest of the Papuasians are on tlie whole jirimarily agriculturistsand. in a nearly equal degree, fishermen. In the larger islandsthere is usually a sharp distinction between the coast people, whoare mainly fishers, and the inlanders, who are agriculturists;the latter are always by far the more primitive, and in many casesare practically the serfs of the former. The plantations, in which THE PAPUASIANS 123 both sexes work, are very well tended ; irrigation is practised, andin places aqueducts are constructed (New Caledonia, New Guinea).Fish are almost everywhere captured by hooks (Hg. o rt-c), spears,and traps : but two devices are ^vorthy of special mention. In NewGuinea the bait is sometimes suspended from a kite, so that it tripsalong the surface of the water ; in Torres Straits the natives, whenfishing for turtle, attach a line to the tail of a remora or
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