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328 money, and in a lesser degree mats, and boars' tusks; the head of the peculiar pig rawe, with its tusks, is still very valuable there.

(10) Decorative Arts. There appear to be four distinct groups into which the languages of the Melanesian islands

here in view naturally fall; and each of these groups has a distinctive style of decoration. The Western and Eastern