North coast Papuans wear a headdress of black wooly material sewn on to
a frontlet of minute beads, fibre breast ornaments, and armlets of boars'
tusks and tridacna shell
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His trinkets include ropes of shells on his neck and breast, tortoiseshell
ear-rings, and a frontal circlet of small white shells split and sewn
on a finely plaited rattan
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