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CAPTAIN OF A COMPANY OF CANNIBAL FIGHTING MEN
| Black cassowary feathers form his headdress, proclaiming him to be a personage in his tribe. Similar feathers compose his ruff, the ends of which are held down on his chest by cross-belts of shell and rattan. His ear-rings are of cuscus tails stripped of their hair, and his armlets of tridacna shell |