ABSTRACT
I THE tribes who live within the sphere of the Kula system of trading belong, one and all-with the exception perhaps, of the Rossel Island natives, of whom we know next to nothing -to the same racial group. These tribes inhabit the easternmost end of the mainland of New Guinea and those islands, scattered in the form of the long-drawn archipelago, which continue in the same south-easternly trend as the mainland, as if to bridge over the gap between New Guinea and the Solomons.
