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with a hole through the narrower end for the attachment of 

 the string. It is intended to be swung by means of a stick 

 attached to the other end of the string. 



It must be observed that the Maori bull-roarer is of a very- 

 different form from the Chatham Island specimen, so much so 

 that one would hardly suppose the two to have been made by 

 closely related races. 



I also learnt from a European boy on Chatham Island 

 that the bull-roarer is there known to the Maori school- 

 children, presumably as a toy. This being the case, it might 

 be suspected that my specimen is of recent origin, and not of 

 Moriori workmanship ; but its evident antiquity, its peculiar 

 form, sculpture, and material, as well as the locality where it 

 was found, afford pretty conclusive evidence that it is not of 

 modern manufacture. The great difference between the 

 Chatham Island and New Zealand bull-roarers perhaps af- 

 fords another indication that the Maori and Moriori races 

 branched off from one another at a very remote period. 



EXPLANATION OP PLATES V. AND VI. 

 Plate V. 



Fig. 1. Human figure cut in the bark of an old kopi-tree at Moro- 



roa, Chatham Island. 

 Fig. 2. Similar figure at Wharekauri, Chatham Island. 



Figs. 3, 4. Figures on two kopi-trees close together at Mairangi, near 



Wharekauri, Chatham Island. 

 Fig. 5. Figure of shag (?) carved in soft rock forming the entrance 



to a shallow cave or rock-shelter at Mororoa, Chatham 



Island. 

 (Figs. 1 to 5 from sketches by the author.) 



Plate VI. 



Bone fish-hooks. 



Chert " blubber-knives " or scrapers (?). 



Cylindrical chert chisel. 



Flat chisel or adze of hard grey stone. 



" Bull-roarer " of whalebone. 



Bird's bone sharpened, and probably used for extracting 

 shell-fish. 



Figs. 14, 15. Sharks' teeth bored for stringing. 



(Figs. 6 to 15 from photographs of specimens brought by the author from 



Chatham Island.) 



