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the victim devoted to the gods in a sacrifice. May not these 

 objects be a flicker of some old superstition which has been 

 preserved in this idealised form ? 



Moseley, in his book, " Notes of a Naturalist on the 

 'Challenger,'" p. 504, figures one of the hook-shaped orna- 

 ments worn by the Hawaiians, which has, however, little 

 actual resemblance to our specimens. Cook, in his Third 

 Voyage, vol. ii., p. 232, says, " The Hawaiians fix [on their 

 necklaces] a small bit of wood, or stone, or shell, about 2in. 

 long, with a broad hook turning forwards at its lowest part, 

 well polished." Captain King, in the same work, vol. hi., 

 p. 135, says, " Both sexes wear necklaces . . . and an 

 ornament in the form of the handle of a cup, about 2in. long 

 and Un. broad, made of wood, stone, or ivory, finely polished, 

 which is hung about the neck by fine threads of twisted hair, 

 doubled sometimes a hundredfold. Instead of this ornament, 

 some of them wore on their breast a small human figure made 

 of bone, suspended in the same manner." 



EXPLANATION OP PLATE LIII. 



Fig. 1. Carved bone pendant found at Shag Point, Otago. 



Fig. 2. Carved bone pendant found near Cape Campbell (Colonial Mu- 

 seum). 



Fig. 3. Side view of stone pendant figured in " Ancient History of the 

 Maori," vol. iii., p. 192. 



Fig. 4. Fragment of similar stone pendant found at Matarau, near Cape 

 Kidnappers, Hawke's Bay, by Captain Mair (from a rough 

 cast). 



Fig. 5. Side-view of No. 1 : full size. 



Fig. 6. Side-view of No. 2. 



Fig. 7. Section of No. 3 at a. 



Fig. 8. Section of No. 3 at 6. 



Fig. 9. Section across the middle of No. 1. 



Fig. 10. Section across the middle of No. 2. 



Art. LXIX. — Notes on Maori Necklaces. 

 By A. Hamilton. 



[Read before the Otago Institute, 11th October, 1892.'] 



The Maoris, as seen by Captain Cook, the early voyagers, and 

 missionaries, were not much in the habit of wearing elaborate 

 necklaces ; and we have no evidence of their caring for the 

 beads and gewgaws which usually formed part of the trade- 

 goods of the pioneers of civilisation. Hoop-iron and axes 

 and weapons of a practical kind were the objects most in 



