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The island of stone money

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A Record, in the Making Frontispiece

A Native Residence 22

A Rich Man’s House 24

House of a Copra Trader 26

A Native-Made Path 30

A “Pabai,” or Men’s Club-House 36

Return From a Fishing Cruise on the Open Sea 40

A “Failu” 44

Man and Wife of “Pimlingai,” or Slave Class 48

Lemet, a Mispil 52

Waigong, a Boy of Sixteen or Seventeen 56

Full Dress of a High-Class Damsel 60

Inifel, a Turbulent Chief 64

A Phonographic Matinée 72

Four Damsels Who Sang into the Phonograph 74

Lian, Chief of Dulukan 76

The Largest “Fei” on the Island 92

Stone Money Belonging to the “Failu” 96

“Gagai,” or Cat’s Cradle 108

Kakofel, the Daughter of Lian 110

Coconut Grove 114

Migiul, a Mispil 124

Fatumak 126

Fatumak’s Account for Coconuts Rendered 138

The Mode of Carrying Babies 154

The Tattooing of the Men of Fashion 158

Tattooing 159

Usual Tattoo Marks of a Mispil 160

Funeral Gifts of Stone Money and Pearl Shells 166

Gyeiga Placing Two Pearl Shells on Her Father’s Corpse 168

Map 273

THE ISLAND OF STONE MONEY

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