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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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