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off the northwest coast of new guinea coconuts are synonymous with money for copra d ried dried coconut mental serves as currency five pieces of tobacco represent one hundred copra a bolt of calico a number of thousand copra according to its quality and so on the growing coconuts on the palms are spoken of as green although they may be either green or yellow in color at this stage they are full of the delicious sweet milk thirst quenching aa as lemonade and the flesh they contain Is very thin when the nuts are ripe the i flesh Is of maximum thickness and they fall all to the ground then they are gathered and the thick husks are removed the nuts emerging as they tire are sold in european arid and american shops they are split in halves the milk being now more or less sour and are placed open end end downward on the drying frame a stand supported on legs about four feet high mats are put over the nuts and a fire lighted beneath the frame Is allowed to burn for about twelve hours the dried flesh then is readily removed from the shell with the aid of a porpoise bone or sharpened stick this operation over the dried flesh or copra as it Is called Is taken to the trading station in baskets and exchanged for goods when a ship calls the copra Is put into bags and weighed and then carried by natives into flat bottomed punts which are towed off to the ship 1 by a motor launch the copra goes to on florida island or of the solomon group where it Is trans shipped to sydney the oil extracted from copra is used in making snaps candles and butter substitutes the pulp becomes cattle feed the other and far less important item of exchange at antong java Is shell tills this shell like the copra Is shipped it usually finds its way to japan or Bel belgium glum where it la Is cut and polished into pearl buttons the cone shaped reddish shell sometimes the roil red outside if the button has been imperfectly cut is washed up into shallow water unter of the reefs where it is collected by the natives and ivory nuts the lagoon abounds with heche beche demer the or sea slug a food delicacy of the last east it Is collected by japanese who conic come out from in ili special buggers lug gers from dinghies they look out for tile slugs below when a suitable specimen Is sighted the diver goes over the side sinks about a fathom then transfixes ills his prey with the end on of a sort of weighted harpoon which he might be said to let fall upon it the slugs are cleaned boiled and dried A full cargo for a lu lugger about five fire tons usual usually 13 takes three months to collect although of course the price varies it Is 11 normally to ivory nuts the products of a graceful palm are used chiefly for making buttons knife handles and ar articles the nuts are crushed and the objects molded from the paste made from them A native home borne on tile islands is rectangular ular it has a framework of poles tied in position with rope made from the liber fiber of the coconut husk no nalls nails are used the peaked roof Is thatched ith pan danus d inus palm leaf the leaves bent over and made fast to a stick about four or rive five feet long iong these sticks tied to the roof poles so that they overlap make a virtually rainproof roof the walls of the house are mide made of mats of plaited coconut leaf tied to the upright sticks the floor is also covered with these dents dints nail thes les use rise these eints as beds other mats fire are used for blankets and ill pieces L ces of wood as pillows clean charming natives the natives tire are a clear clean friend I 1 ly Y 1 and altogether charming people fori annd d or of swimming they always bathe at least once a day they tire aio well ell built and handsome many reaching 5 foot feet 6 luclus lu in height and some 0 feet or more inore their complexion cOulp levion of a coffee color Is similar to that hint of the Ila coys boys from about fourteen fourt Pen cirs cars of age to twenty wear ther alio llio r hair cut fairly close from then until they are married men with small families they allow it to grow long iong they resume haircutting hair cutting at the beginning of middle age and continue the practice until they are old for mature men custom favors a rather close crop over most of the head with a bushy tuft left at each side there tire are hoNe however vcr many exceptions to this rule girls wear their hale hair in the two tufts until they become mothers and from then on keep their heads fairly closely shaved a style discouraging cou raging to lice the hair is usually black though at the ends it may bleach to a reddish brown and it may be straight wavy or in a few cases distinctly woolly hands and feet of both men and women are frequently small and often delicately shaped but the in step is rarely high and some na tives tires are almost flat footed however the legs are straight and beautiful and many of the men have a grace and beauty that might be the envy of an ancient greek virtually every woman wears as a skirt a fathom of canvas kept in place by a belt of woven leaf or plaited human hair th the e upper part of the body Is left bare fora for a mans attire a strip of calico passing around the waist and be the legs and tied back and front suffices children of both sexes go naked till they are about eleven or twelve el elaborate tattooing both men and women are tattooed the decoration Is begun in early childhood and with tile fore head and nose the forehead pat tern resembles an open bouk book at al the age of twelve or so when ahen the girls first wear skirts permanently they receive suits of tattooing from waist N list to knee that look from a dis tance like close bitting titting figured black bloomers only on close inspection spec tion can the actual pattern be discerned the pattern Is made up of fish and geometrical designs As the girl grows older fish are added around the hips and on the ston ach tater cater t ater still when she becomes pregnant for the first time the tat toola Is finished by the covering of tle tie breasts chest back arms and even the cheeks checks and chin eldeb of tile the frice face with tish fish design the ahe men have tar far loss less tattoo than hit women except on the fore baad and nose they have none un til ill they are about twenty years of use age then two broad bands are added extending from the shoulder around the back to the thighs and in ft front terminating in two arrows on the chest the arm Is tattooed either with lish fish or a geometrical tic de sign A row of dots just below tho eye gives exactly the effect that h woman seeks when slie she darkens her lids it makes the eyes stand out and nd appear to ile be much larger than they are when a man Is the father of a family he may hae a few fish added on his back arid and hips aud and thighs but bet many forego t this ills r right 1 coconut palm most useful it would be impossible to find any other single tree which serves such a variety of ends as the coconut palm especially on island it gives food and drink tile the latter particularly important on smaller islands where there are arc no water holes visitors have gone gene for ten tell days alth nothing to drina but coconut milk also it ft furnishes besides the copra of commerce a strongly alco holle toddy and a sticky resembling tr treacle encle the husks and shells provide fuel and the dried spit lic Is excellent tinder the shells serve as plates spoons arid and water bott bottles les the wats for walls and for beds ire are made from the leaves the d ried dried leaves tied into bundles give as and flares the spines of the leaves are made into brooms and the central stalk provides a weak timber which is put to a number of uses the outer skin seln of this stall stalk Is useful where a strong tough rope is required as in lashing the gunwale of the canoe to the dugout log the rope made from the husk liber fiber serves all general purposes from house ties to fish 1381 line A coarse covering at the base of the loaf leaf which at a 1 first glance looks like a roughly woven novell fabric Is ninde made into strainers ners anil blees slees alie victual fic tull trunk of the baliu although biot ot very durable du Is made into spears and walking sticks or cut into logs for sitting platform pl informs si |
