Identifier: handbooktoethnog00brit (find matches)
Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ell were worn by the Tasmanians ; elsewhere stringsof shells and shell-beads, teeth, and seeds; armlets of shell,pendants of shell, turtle-shell, boars tusks, and the like are w^ornin great variety. Especially characteristic are the cachalot ivorypendants and shell and ivory breastplates of the Fijians, the jadebeads of New Caledonia, the shell breast ornaments of theSolomons, the turtle-shell fretwork of the Solomons, New Ireland,Admiralty, and New Guinea, and the boars tusks of New Guineaand the New Britain Archipelago ; the ornaments of the AdmiraltyIslands are very similar to those of the Papuans. Habitations vary greatly in pattern and in size, from the rudewind-screens of the Tasmanians to the large communal dwellingsof New Britain and PajKian New Guinea. A circular ground-planis found in interior Fiji, New Caledonia, and locally in NewIreland, and was the usual pattern originallj in the Banks Islands.Elsewhere buildings are rectangular. Pile-houses are common THE PAPUASIANS 121
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-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

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