Note 317.1 — Chapter XIII · NOTES

Mouat, 327; E. H. Man, in xii. Journ. Anthr. Inst., 86, 142, 401, 402; Prof. Owen, in ii. Trans. Ethn. Soc., N.S., 37; E. Palmer, in xiii. Journ. Anthr. Inst., 298; Prof. Haddon, in v. Folklore, 320, citing Annals de la Propag. de la Foi; ix. Rep. Bur. Ethn., 485, citing Smyth; Dawson, 65; Featherman, Papuo-Mel., 157, 162; Roth, 76; Backhouse, 84; ii. Rep. Austr. Ass., 605; Featherman, Oceano-Mel., 193. The widow of an Uraba preserved the hinder part of his skull; but did she wear it? i. Bancroft, 783. In the same way Speke, 500, leaves us in doubt whether the lower jaw of a chief of the Wahuma, and the finger-bones and hair of an officer of state, were worn by anybody. Probably the former was, as it was adorned with beads. M. Du Chatellier gives an account of a skull of the bronze age unearthed in Brittany, from which a considerable piece had been cut after death on the right side. E. Cartailhac, in v. L’Anthropologie, 266, citing and reviewing an article by the learned Breton antiquary. This is not quite a singular case, and probably points to the antiquity of the practice under discussion.