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II. A
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IV. A.
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XX. 1, 2.
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F1?’ W?’
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P“? P1?’ P1? S11?’
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Portrait of the Author . . Frontispiece
View of South-West Bay . . . . .
Young men and boys outside a house .
Portraits of men, one with deformed head . , . .
Plaited skirt, headdress, girdle, bark~belt, and penis
wrapper. Mat-skirt area . . . . . .
Fringe-skirts and at man's tasselled bag, from the Fringe-skirt
area. . . . . . . . . . .
Mat-skirt women, Lernbumbu . . . . .
Three men, ? Lambumbu . . . . . .
Gongs and the naai save of a. Seniang village . . .
Gongs of e Lambumbu village showing line of rnonoliths .
Deformed boars’ tusks . . . . . . .
Brewer, bows, quiver and arrows . . . . .
Five types of wooden clubs . . . . . .
Group of men with weapons, S.W. Malekule (Martin
Johnson) . . . . . . . . .
Atree and Nagepate, Big Nembas men . . . .
Big Nambas women (both photographs by Martin Johnson)
Two small temes of tree-fern . . . . . .
The conical sacred structure of a N alawzm grade .
Ceremonial pig-killer, conch, and rattle anklet . .
Tame: naainggul, conical musical instrument . .
Temes and gong beside a. path . . . .
Erection for N nzhmnm N aainggol .
Three Nalawan masks . . I .
Men clothed with spider-web . . . .
Objects connected with the Nevinbur of Seniang: 4 iemes
and bullroarer . . . . . .
Hea,d~dress of woman of high Laqms rank, Seniang . .
“ Mother " and " child " bullroarers, and pen-pipes,
Lambumbu . . . . . .
Village gongs . . . . . . . .
Beating a gong . . . . . . .
Offering food and prayers in a funeral rite .
Two mmbammp in the Melbourne Museum .
Rambammp in the Cambridge Museum . .
The nzmbammp oi a. man of very high rank. Height,
1'677 m. (5 ft. 6 in.). In the Cambridge Museum,
collected and given by A. B. Deacon. p. 285. 27.2174.
On the head is a ï¬Ållet of Turkey-red calico and three
spider-web caps with tails hanging down to the waist.
The face and neck are red, a. broad slateqgrey ring
surrounds each eye, this passes anterior-ly into a. vertical
line which runs down on each side oi the ridge of the nose ;
posteriorly the eye~ring is continued as e line to the
insertion of the lobe of the ear.
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