om
wears them in his ears on his wedding day (_Melanesians of British
New Guinea_, p. 78).

[45] Dr. Stapf, to whose inspection I have submitted two of these
combs, said they were made of palm-wood--split and shaped pieces from
the periphery of the petiole or stem of a palm--and that the material
used for binding the teeth of the combs together was sclerenchyma
fibre from the petiole or rhizome of a fern.

[46] These earrings are, I think, sometimes found in Mekeo; but they
have all come from the mountains.

[47] See note on p. 27 as to the way in which these plates have
been produced.

[48] Only the two ends of the pattern have been copied, the
intermediate part being the same throughout, as is shown.

[49] I am unable to state the various forms and varieties of these
vegetables, but I give the following native names for plants of the
yam, taro, and sweet potato types:--Yams include _tsiolo, avanve,
buba, aligarde, vaule, vonide, poloide_ and _ilavuide_. Taros include
_auvari, elume, lupeliolu, kamulepe, ivuvana_ and _fude_. Sweet
potatoes include _asi, bili, dube, saisasumulube_ and _amb' u tolo_
(this last name means "ripe banana," and the reason suggested for
the name is that the potato tastes rather like a ripe banana).

[50] Dr. Stapf says the wood is that of a rather soft-wooded
dicotyledonous tree (possibly urticaceous).

[51] The Chirima boring instrument figured by Mr. Monckton (_Annual
Report_ for June 30, 1906) is rather of the Mafulu type, but in this
case the fly-wheel, instead of being a flat piece of wood, appears to
be made of a split reed bound on either side of the upright cane shaft.

[52] Hammocks are also used in the plains and on the coast, but only,
I think, to a very limited extent; whereas in the mountains, of at
all events the Mafulu district, they are used largely.

[53] I had a considerable quantity of impedimenta, and unfortunately
my condition made it necessary for me to be carried down also; and
I had great difficulty in getting enough carriers.

[54] Compare the differently shaped mortar found in the Yodda valley
and described and figured in the _Annual Report_ for June, 1904, p. 31.

[55] The practice of destroying the pigs' eyes in the Kuni district
is referred to in the _Annual Report_ for June, 1900, p. 61.

[56] This is subject to the qualification which arises from the fact
(stated below) that a member of one clan who migrates to a village of
another clan retains his