The men, as usual among savages, adorn themselves more than the women.

They wear necklaces, earrings, and finger rings, and delight in a band of plaited grass tight round the arm just below the shoulder, to which they attach a bunch of hair or bright coloured feathers by way of ornament.

The teeth of small animals, either alone, or alternately with black or white beads, form their necklaces, and sometimes bracelets also.

For these latter, however, they prefer brass wire, or the black, horny, wing-spines of the cassowary, which they consider a charm.

Anklets of brass or shell, and tight plaited garters below the knee, complete their ordinary decorations.
Some natives of Kobror from further south, and who are reckoned the worst and least civilized of the Aru tribes, came one day to visit us.
They have a rather more than usually savage appearance, owing to the greater amount of ornaments they use--the most conspicuous being a large horseshoe-shaped comb which they wear over the forehead, the ends resting on the temples.