Identifier: handbooktoethnog00brit (find matches)
Title: Handbook to the ethnographical collections
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography Joyce, Thomas Athol, 1878-1942 Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945
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Publisher: (London) : Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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mentioned large pinnashells, used as vessels for paint or as plates;nautilus shells, serving for drinking-vessels;joints of bamboo, used as receptacles for food orwater; rude earthenware pots, made without awheel, baskets made of cane ; string and netsmade of the bark-fil)res of trees. Utensils and weapons were ornamented bycarving with a cyrena shell or by the applicationof patterns in red or white clay. The Andanianese have no musical instrumentsexcept u rude sounding-board, on which the con-ductor at dances marks time by kicking it withhis foot. The Andamanese live in constant fear of evilspirits. Both sexes go through initiatory ceie- 1-: (•.5 ))on nrshootingdaman h Har- ■o\v for)igs. An-l.uuls. 80 ASIA monies at puberty, and different kinds of food are forbidden oncertain occasions. The dead are buried within the encampment in a sitting postureand wrapped up in leaves. The encampment is then deserted forthree months, after which the l>ody is exhumed, and washed in
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Fia. 06.—Skull of a near relative, painted and carriedas a memento by a mourner. Andaman Islands. the sea. Necklaces are then made of the bones, which are wornas mementoes by relations and friends, and aie thought to curepain or disease. Thus a man afflicted with toothache ties sucha necklace round his face (fig. 35). The skull of the deceased isalso worn round the neck as a mark of affection (fig. Q6). Thenumbers of the Andamanese are diminishing, and it is probablethat the race will be extinct before very many years. 81 EAST ASIA AND INDO-CHINA The greater part of Eastern Asia is inhabited by three mixedraces of Mongolian stock, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese.The home of the purest type of Chinese was the province ofKangsu in the north-west of the country, whence they spreadeast and south, mixing with North Mongolian peoples —Tungus,Manchu, and Mongol. The Manchu, to which the presentChinese dynasty belongs, are of the Tungus family. The in-hal)itants of Southern China are S

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