1 to 2 cm. in diameter and about 2 m. long. The bark and sapwood is loosened at one end from the heartwood with the teeth and stripped off, the stick being held with the teeth in successive places as the hands strip off the exterior. It is then rolled up, bark outside. The next step consists in cutting across the bark about 4 or 5 inches from the larger end, with a knife. The bark is from here pulled off from the sapwood, leaving a strip about 3 to 4 cm. wide and 2 m.+ long, (quite often not over 1 m. long with the smaller stems. This (the sapwood) is next rolled up and placed in water. In a short time it becomes soft and is pounded out flat on a "dundua" or board.. This varies in width from 12 to 16 inches, up to 7 feet in length and T-shaped in cross section, through thθ support, of which there are two, one toward each end; rather rounded on top. Made of buabua (Guettarda speciosa). The beaters are called "ike" and are from 12 to 15 inches long with four faces and a handle made of cau (Casuarina) wood. One of the faces is always without grooves. The others vary in the number and arrangement of the grooves from two to six or seven. The usual numbers are 3, 4 and 5 and occasionally 6. Purchased two representative beaters for 2/-. The process of beating is called samusamu. The bark quickly flattens out, but must be repeatedly moistened. Several thicknesses are pounded at once after they have become somewhat flattened out. The final produce is about 30 inches wide (as made here) and of various lengths. These of course can be joined together in the beating making sheets of almost any size. There is practically no carving of kowa (yagona) bowls here, and no extensive canoe making. The men do carve out "lali" or native drums; several finished and partly finished ones being scattered about tho village. They typically are shaped thus: