Chapter I: Front Matter

THE ISLAND OF STONE MONEY

UAP OF THE CAROLINES

THE

ISLAND OF STONE MONEY

UAP

OF

THE CAROLINES

BY

WILLIAM HENRY FURNESS, 3RD, M.D., F.R.G.S.

AUTHOR OF
“HOME-LIFE OF THE BORNEO HEAD-HUNTERS”

_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
BY THE AUTHOR_

PHILADELPHIA & LONDON

J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

1910

COPYRIGHT, 1910
BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

Published September, 1910

_Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company_
_The Washington Square Press, Philadelphia, U. S. A._

IN MEMORIAM

23 JUNE, 1909

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I INTRODUCTORY 11

II NATIVE HOUSES 21

III BACHELORS’ HOUSES 36

IV COSTUME AND ADORNMENTS 56

V SONGS AND INCANTATIONS 69

VI DANCE AND POSTURE SONGS 82

VII MONEY AND CURRENCY 92

VIII UAP FRIENDSHIPS 107

IX RELIGION 142

X PERCEPTION OF COLOUR 155

XI TATTOOING 157

XII BURIAL RITES 162

UAP GRAMMAR 180

VOCABULARY 199

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

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