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impels them to submit cheerfully to the

grave and constant hardships and dangers to which their labour of love
necessarily exposes them.
Since my return home Dr. Seligmann has given me immense help,
advising me upon my notes, placing material at my disposal, and
afterwards reading through a considerable portion of my manuscript.
Mr. T.A. Joyce and Mr. J. Edge Partington helped me in arranging and
dealing with the things which I had brought back to the British
Museum. Dr. Keith examined and reported upon some skulls which I
had obtained, and advised me upon my notes on physique. Dr. Stapf
helped me in matters of botanical identification; Mr. S.H. Ray has
given me the full benefit of his wide knowledge of South Pacific
linguistics, and has written the appendices to the book. And, finally, Dr.
Haddon has very kindly read through my proof sheets.
In conclusion, I would add that there is still an immense amount of
detailed work to be done among the Mafulu people, and that the
districts of the Ambo and Boboi and Oru Lopiku people, still further
back among the mountains, offer an almost virgin field for
investigation to anyone who will take the trouble to go there.

CONTENTS

Introduction, by Dr. A.C. Haddon
CHAPTER I
Introductory
CHAPTER II
Physique and Character
CHAPTER III

Dress and Ornament
CHAPTER IV
Daily Life and Matters Connected with It
CHAPTER V
Community, Clan, and Village Systems and Chieftainship
CHAPTER VI
Villages, Emone, Houses and Modes of Inter-Village Communication
CHAPTER VII
Government, Property and Inheritance
CHAPTER VIII
The Big Feast
CHAPTER IX
Some Other Ceremonies and Feasts
CHAPTER X
Matrimonial and Sexual
CHAPTER XI
Killing, Cannibalism and Warfare
CHAPTER XII
Hunting, Fishing and Agriculture

CHAPTER XIII
Bark Cloth Making, Netting and Art
CHAPTER XIV
Music and Singing, Dancing, and Toys and Games
CHAPTER XV
Counting, Currency and Trade
CHAPTER XVI
Language
CHAPTER XVII
Illness, Death and Burial
CHAPTER XVIII
Religion and Superstitious Beliefs and Practices
CHAPTER XIX
Note on the Kuni People
CHAPTER XX
Conclusion
APPENDIX I
A Grammar of the Fuyuge Language
APPENDIX II

Note on the Afoa Language
APPENDIX III
Note on the Kovio Language
APPENDIX IV
A Comparative Vocabulary of the Fuyuge, Afoa, and Kovio Languages
APPENDIX V
Notes on the Papuan Languages Spoken about the Head Waters of the
St. Joseph River, Central Papua

PLATES
Mafulu Women Decorated for a Dance. ... Frontispiece 1 Kuni Scenery.
2 Mafulu Scenery. 3 Skull A. 4 Skull C. 5 Husband, Wife and Child. 6
Man and Two Women. 7, 8 Man, Young Man and Boy. 9 Different
Types of Men. 10 An Unusual Type. 11, 12 Two Unusual Types. 13
Fig. 1. Section of Man's Perineal Band. Fig. 2. Decoration near end of
Woman's Perineal Band. Fig. 3. Section of Woman's Perineal Band. Fig.
4. Section of Man's or Woman's Dancing Ribbon. 14 Fig. 1. Belt No. 1.
Fig. 2. Belt No. 3. Fig. 3. Belt No. 4. 15 Fig. 1. Belt No. 5 (one end
only). Fig. 2. Belt No. 6 (one end only). Fig. 3. Belt No. 7. 16 A
General Group. 17 A Young Chief's Sister decorated for a Dance. 18,
19 Women wearing Illness Recovery Capes. 20 Fig. 1. Ear-rings. Fig. 2.
Jew's Harp. Fig. 3. Hair Fringe. 21 Man, Woman and Children. 22, 23
A Little Girl with Head Decorations. 24 Figs. 1, 2, 5, and 6. Women's
Hair Plaits decorated with European Beads, Shells, Shell Discs, Dog's
Tooth, and Betel Nut Fruit. Fig. 3. Man's Hair Plait with Cane Pendant.
Fig. 4. Man's Hair Plait with Betel Nut Pendant. 25 Fig. 1. Leg Band.
Figs. 2 and 4. Women's Hair Plaits decorated with Shells and Dogs'
Teeth. Fig. 3. Bone Implement used (as a Fork) for Eating. 26 Group of
Women. 27 A Young Woman. 28 Two Women. 29 Two Women. 30
Fig. 1. Mourning String Necklace. Fig. 2. Comb. Fig. 3. Pig's Tail

Ornament for Head. Fig. 4. Whip Lash Head Ornament. Fig. 5.
Forehead Ornament. 31 Necklaces. 32 A Necklace. 33 Necklaces. 34
Fig. 1. Armlet No. 5. Fig. 2. Armlet No. 4. Fig. 3. Armlet No. 2. Fig. 4.
Armlet No. 1. 35 Woman wearing Dancing Apron. 36, 37 Decoration
of Dancing Aprons. 38, 39 Decoration of Dancing Aprons. 40, 41
Decoration of Dancing Aprons. 42, 43 Decoration of Dancing Aprons.
44 Head Feather Ornaments. 45 Head Feather Ornaments. 46 Fig. 1.
Head Feather Ornament. Fig. 2. Back Feather Ornament. 47 Plaited
Head Feather Frames. 48 Mother and Baby. 49 At the Spring. 50 A
Social Gathering. 51 Fig. 1. Small Smoking Pipe. Fig. 2. Pig-bone
Scraping Implement. Fig. 3. Stone Bark Cloth Beater. Fig. 4. Drilling
Implement. Fig. 5. Bamboo Knife. Figs. 6 and 7. Lime Gourds. 52 Fig.
1. Wooden Dish. Figs. 2 and 3. Water-Carrying Gourds. 53 Fig.