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OBSERVANCE OF STRANGE RITE AMONG YOUTHS OF BUKA ISLAND
| Much forethought and artistic effort is bestowed by South Sea Islanders on the headgear worn on important occasions. On the islands of Bougainville and Buka, formerly German, now British possessions, the natives manufacture marvellous headdresses, and the boys of Buka sometimes wear these weird grass globe-shaped hats, to denote that they are not yet of marriageable age |