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