lO I ^i Clin a Hofmiiscum . 



Manihiki ( Paiimotu Group). 

 Paddles of coconut wood inlaid with small pearl-shell disks: this 

 ornamentation being chara(5teristic of this island. 



He7vey Islands. 

 Delicate, lace-like mat, the braids rCvSembling human figures. A 

 similar mat was afterwards found in Weber's colle(5tion at Berne 

 undoubtedly Tongan. The}- were used in barter. 



N'eiv Giiinea. 

 Cuirass of Calamus rotang . 6 Pan-pipes; one of them with 24, 

 the rest with 13 reeds. 2 Coffins of canoe form with covers. 

 2 Gourd whistles like the Hawaiian Ipu hokiokio, with 3 holes. 

 Spears tipped with cassowary bone were labelled "lyauka". 



The feather work from Brazil was chiefly yellow, black, and 

 red, strings of feathers, not on net-work, and greatly resembling the 

 Hawaiian lei. Feather sceptres from the Mandurucu were beauti- 

 ful, but the so-called cloak of Montezuma surpassed them all. This 

 was formerly in the Ambras colle(5tion and was figured, *described, 

 and repaired by the late Baron von Hochstetter formerly Dire(5tor 

 of this museum; and it has since been the subject of much discus- 

 sion as to its original intention, whether head-dress, ensign, or cloakt; 

 but its form indicates the first. A broad fringe of Quetzal feathers 

 ( Pharomacrus niocinno ) shows its royal characfter: with these are the 

 wonderful turquoise-blue feathers of the Xiuhtototl ( Colinga cinda 

 or ccci'ulea). A feather fan of the same origin described and fig- 

 ured+ by Herr Custos Heger is 26^ inches in diameter and hardly 

 less beautiful. A shield of feather mosaic is also here. 



The staff of this museum is large, and the ground-floor con- 

 tains a village of work and store rooms opening into interior courts. 

 Visitors on public holidays crowd the vast halls to the great dis- 

 comfort of those who wish to see anything, the throng being so great 

 that the police have to move it in one direction only. Much kind 



"* Ueber mexikanische Reliquien aus der Zeit Montezuma's in der k.k.Ambraser Samni- 

 lung in den Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Classe der kaiserlich Akadeniie 

 der Wissenschaften in Wien, Bd. xxxv (1SS4). 



t Zelia Nuttall. Standard or Head-dress ? Archseological and ethnological Papers of 

 the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Vol. i. No. i. 



% Altmexikanische Reliquien aus dem Schloss Ambras in Tirol. [Annalen des k.k.nat- 

 urhistorischen Hofmuseums, Band vii, Heft 4. Wien 1S92.] 



