This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...Guinea. Large oblong shields and carved wooden belts, similar to those which 1 have previously described at some length, have also been stated to have been obtained from this region. I think we may regard the Maiva Region as marking the most northerly point of British New Guinea colonised by the non-Papuan immigrants ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...Guinea. Large oblong shields and carved wooden belts, similar to those which 1 have previously described at some length, have also been stated to have been obtained from this region. I think we may regard the Maiva Region as marking the most northerly point of British New Guinea colonised by the non-Papuan immigrants cf. the General Conclusions at the end of this Memoir). The Motu trading fleets, however, voyage for a hundred miles further to the westward. As there is always some uncertainty in determining the affinities of intermediate groups, I should not be surprised if Jater writers prefer to class the Maiva folk with the Gulf natives. In the more recent maps the Kivori (or Kevori) tribe are placed on the south-eastern flanks of the Cape Possession range, and the Maiva tribe are four miles further down the coast. The villages of Iriauna and Kivori belong to the former, and Rorokokina, Rororoaiera, and Arabukupuna to the latter. I shall term them all Maiva, as it is not easy for me to distinguish between them, though I am aware that there has been a very ancient feud between the Maiva and Kivori which Mac Gregor has now amicably settled. (C. A. 1, 1892, p. 19). The Maiva people "are taller and half a shade darker than the Motu, and have no hair on their faces, which are larger and somewhat coarserlooking. Their noses are long, slightly distended at the nostrils, and rounded at the apex... The cheekbone is conspicuous, the mouth large, ears small... the lobe of the ear is artificially elongated in several of the men, by wearing ear-tubes (not rings), as much as lj inches in diameter, made of a leaf... They excel in fine network, and when in mourning wear three or four net collars" (Stone, pp. 186, 187). Stone, however, does not distinguish betwe...
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