Solomon Islands

POWDER AND PAINT ARE SOCIETY'S ORNAMENTS ON SIMBO ISLAND

Natives of the Solomon Islands often smear their hair and bodies with a paste made from coral lime. Applied to the hair it serves the double purpose of bleaching it and destroying vermin. Throughout Melanesia women have but a small measure of liberty and responsibility. Women and rank may be purchased with pigs, a wife costing from one to twenty pigs according to her attractions

Warramunga

ONE OF THE BLACKS WHO OWNED AUSTRALIA BEFORE THE WHITES CAME

This Warramunga is a member of a tribe whose kind have lived in Australia from very early times in so primitive a fashion that they have not even learned to till the ground or use more than a few simple stone and wooden implements. They are to-day only in a Stone Age state of civilization.

WARRAMUNGA MAN'S PROUD DISFIGUREMENT

His nostrils broke under the weight of the large wooden spike with which they were pierced, and, following his ideas of beauty, he has pulled out the hairs of his forehead and upper lip