the purpose of being wound off into a ball by someone else, but which, instead of being wound off, is tied up at the two points where it passes round the hands of the holder, and is then pulled out into a straight line of double the original number of strands, and so forms a single many-stranded belt of 2 feet or more in length.  It is fastened round the waist with a piece of bark cloth attached to one of the points where the hank has been tied up. [38]

The number of strands is considerable.  Belts examined by me and counted gave numbers varying from eighteen to thirty-five, and the number of strands of the belt round the body would be double that.  Each strand is made of three parts plaited together, and is one-eighth of an inch or less in width.  Various materials, including all the materials used for armlets (see below), are employed for making these belts, some for one and some for another.  Sometimes a belt has its strands all plaited out of one material only, in which case the belt will be all of one colour.  Sometimes its strands are plaited out of two different coloured materials.  There is no colouring of the belt, except that of its strands.

Belt No. 1, as worn, is seen in Plates 9 and 11.  Belt No. 3 is worn by the man at the extreme right in Plate 16.  It is worn by many of the women figured in the plates, and several of them have two belts.  One of the women figured in Plates 18 and 19 has three of them.  Belt No. 4 is worn by one of the men figured in Plates 7 and 8 (he has three of them).  Belt No. 7 is worn by one or two of the women figured in the frontispiece, the one to the extreme right having a many-stranded belt, and it is excellently illustrated in Plate 17.

Capes made of bark cloth are made and worn by men and women.  They are only put on after recovery from an illness by which the wearer has been laid up, including childbirth.  The cape is simply a plain long narrow piece of undyed bark cloth.  The corners of one end are fastened together, and the whole of that end is bunched up into a sort of hood, which is placed over the head, whilst the rest of the cloth hangs down as a narrow strip behind.  The cape in no way covers or conceals any part of the body when viewed from the front or side.  It is only worn for a few days; but whilst wearing it the wearer discards all, or nearly all, his or her ornaments.  I could learn no reason for the custom.  Plates 18 and 19 show these capes, and the way in which they are worn.

Mourning strings (Plate 30, Fig. 1) are made and worn by both men and women.  These are plain undecorated necklaces varying much in size and appearance; sometimes they are made of undyed twisted bark cloth, and vary in thickness from one-sixteenth of an inch to an inch; sometimes they are only made of string, and are quite thin.  There is always an end or tassel to the necklace, made out of the extremities of the neck part, and hanging in front over the chest; and, if