THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. 



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are of the same form as those of the Hawaians, and both differ 

 for example from those of Tahiti. 



NEW ZEALAND WOOD CARVING OF HUMAN HEAD. 



To show the huge size of the mouth, from which 

 the tongue is seen hanging down. (From the 

 stretcher of a canoe in the Ashmolean Museum, 

 Oxford.) 



NEW ZEALAND WOOD CARVING OF 

 HUMAN HEAD. 



To show the large size of the mouth 

 and concavity of the face. (From 

 a specimen in the British Museum.) 



The affinities of the New Zealand language appear to show 

 that the ancestors of the Maoris reached New Zealand from 

 Karatonga, and it appears that Hawaiki, the distant land of 

 which their tradition spoke, is the religious name of the mythi- 

 cal land of origin of the whole Polynesian race, not to be iden- 

 tified with any particular island.* 



The well-known posts with images carved on their tops, set 

 up in the fences around New Zealand houses, may well be 

 compared with the somewhat similar posts set up round the 

 temples in the Hawaian group. In many cases, rough blocks of 

 wood on the tops of the New Zealand posts, evidently represent 

 the carved figures with which the other posts associated with them 

 are surmounted, in the same way as the crescent- shaped notches 

 in the Hawaian posts represent heads of gods. In New Zea- 

 land, however, images of the actual gods were not made or 



* "Die Inseln des Stillen Oceans." C. E. Meinicke. Leipzig, Paul 

 Frohberg, 1875. 1. Th., s. 312. 



