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stone adzes. There are also five mokoed Maori heads. In the 

 owner's absence, Dr. Biichner showed me this extensive nniseuni. 

 Zoologische und anthropologisch-ethnologische Museums zu 

 Dresden. This museum is poorlj- housed in the upper storey of a 

 long colonnade. To get at it at present one has to go through the 

 Natural History Gallery, upstairs and then down stairs, to cross an 

 archway, and then up stairs again. Under the direcflorship of Drs. 

 A. B. Meyer and M. Uhle the publications have been many and very 

 valuable, but the arrangement of the museum did not seem conven- 

 ient for study. In one ca.se were jade articles — Maori heitikis and 

 meres beside Mandarins' balls and New Caledonian beads. 

 Micronesia. 

 Model of a Marshall Islands Mede or chart. Armor suit of coco- 

 nut fibre with the rare form from the Gilbert Islands; 3 suits of 

 common form. Shark tooth implement from Nawodo quite sim- 

 ilar in form to the Hawaiian but distinguishable by a single trans- 

 verse ridge on the handle. See Fig. 58; upper right hand. 



Fiji. 

 12 Throwing clubs; 12 Musket clubs; 4 Knobbed; i Pine-apple; 

 I Cylindrical*. Model of temple in sennit. 2 War-paddles. 



New Caledonia. 

 Greenstone disk club. 2 Death masks. 3 Nephrite clubs. 



Nezv Zealand. 

 3 Jade heitikis. 3 Jade nieies, a very fine one given by Dr. Julius 

 Haast. Kiwi feather cloak. 2 Paddles, common form. 4 Patu 

 of carv^ed wood, new. Bone patu. Greenstone patu. Carv^ed 

 slab with three men and two dragons. Ca.st of an heitiki in the 

 Freiburg museum . 



Marquesas Isla^ids. 

 Club of choice old form: see illustration under British Museum. 



Hervey Islands. 

 5 Canned paddles from Mangaia. Ceremonial adz, inferior. 



*The Vitian clubs have been classified, for convenience in cataloguing:, into these divisions: 

 Throwing, short, slim handles with heavy lobed knobs; native Via. D PI. vii. 



Knobbed, straight bodj- with knobs of the wood or human teeth or bone. A " 

 Pine-apple, tuberculated top bent at an angle to the stout shaft. B " 



Musket, the head flattened and bent like the butt of a gun. F " 



I/Otus, like the preceding but without the shoulder. C " 



Cylindrical, often carved or bound with sennit; sometimes verj' large. E " 



These illustrations are taken from specimens in the Bishop Museum. 



