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. Here, I have not wanted to overload the account with charts, etc., preferring to reserve them till the full publication of my material.

[12] It was soon after I had adopted this course that I received a letter from Dr. A. H. Gardiner, the well-known Egyptologist, urging me to do this very thing. From his point of view as archæologist, he naturally saw the enormous possibilities for an Ethnographer of obtaining a similar body of written sources as have been preserved to us from ancient cultures, plus the possibility of illuminating them by personal knowledge of the full life of that culture.

[13] The best accounts we possess of the inland tribes are those of W. H. Williamson, "The Mafulu," 1912, and of C. Keysser, "Aus dem Leben der Kaileute," in R. Neuhauss, "Deutsch Neu Guinea," Vol. III. Berlin, 1911. The preliminary publications of G. Landtmann on the Kiwai, "Papuan magic in the Building of Houses," "Acta Arboenses, Humanora." I. Abo, 1920, and "The Folk-Tales of the Kiwai Papuans," Helsingfors, 1917, promise that the full account will dispel some of the mysteries surrounding the Gulf of Papua. Meanwhile a good semi-popular account of these natives is to be found in W. N. Beaver's "Unexplored New Guinea," 1920. Personally I doubt very much whether the hill tribes and the swamp tribes belong to the same stock or have the same culture. Compare also the most recent contribution to this problem: "Migrations of Cultures in British New Guinea," by A. C. Haddon, Huxley Memorial Lecture for 1921, published by the R. Anthrop. Institute.

[14] See C. G. Seligman, "The Melanesians of British New Guinea," Cambridge, 1910.

[15] Cf. C. G. Seligman, op. cit., p. 5.

[16] A number of good portraits of the S. Massim type are to be found in the valuable book of the Rev. H. Newton, "In Far New Guinea," 1914, and in the amusingly written though superficial and often unreliable

## booklet of the Rev. C. W. Abel (London Missionary Society), "Savage

Life in New Guinea" (No date).

[17] See Table in the Introduction (p. 16), and also Chapters XVI and XX.

[18] Cf. Professor C. G. Seligman, op. cit., Chapters XL and XLII.

[19] Professor C. G. Seligman, op. cit., Chapters XXXV, XXXVI, XXXVII.

[20] Cf. Professor C. G. Seligman, Chapters XXXVII and XXXVIII.

[21] My knowledge of the Dobuans is fragmentary, derived from three short visits in their district, from conversation with several Dobu natives whom I had in my service, and from frequent parallels and allusions about Dobuan customs, which are met when doing field-work among the Southern Trobrianders. There is a short, sketchy account of certain of their customs and beliefs by the Rev. W. E. Bromilow, first missionary in Dobu, which I have also consulted, in the records of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science.

[22] Professor C. G. Seligman, op. cit., pp. 170 and 171; 187 and 188 about the Koita and Motu; and B. Malinowski, The Mailu, pp. 647-652.

[23] Comp. D. Jenness and A. Ballantyne, "The Northern d'Entrecasteaux," Oxford, 1920,