kobror

Updated: June 18, 2025

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.

Alfred Russel Wallace - The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2