[451] Cf. the remarks of Wood in Nat. Hist. of Man, ii. p. 599.
[452] Clavigero, The History of Mexico, i. p. 371.
[453] As to magical paintings on banners, standards, and shields, see Hein, Die bildenden Künste bei den Dayaks auf Borneo, pp. 71, 72. Cf. also the old Slavonic traditions related by Nagele in Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie, xvii. p. 278 (Der Schlangen-Cultus).
[454] Joest, Tätowiren, p. 20; Polack, New Zealanders, i. p. 28 (Tahiti deformations of the skull).
[455] Bancroft, Native Races, i. pp. 101, 105 (Thlinkeets).
[456] Romilly, My Verandah, p. 42; Finsch, Samoafahrten, p. 91, Atlas, Tafel xxii.; Ethnologische Erfahrungen, p. 99 (Motu, New Guinea), p. 243 (Kaiser Wilhelms Land, New Guinea), p. 630 (Bismarck-Archipel). Some fine specimens to be seen in the British Museum.
[457] In later times, however, the Dyaks have begun to avail themselves for this purpose of the hair of their deceased. Cf. Hein, Die Bildenden Künste bei den Dayaks, p. 74.
[458] Hein, Die Bildenden Künste bei den Dayaks auf Borneo, p. 85.
[459] Marryat, Borneo, pp. 14, 15, 74-76; Selenka, Sonnige Welten, pp. 80, 81.
[460] Hein, l.c. p. 19.