1 4 Dirsdoi — Berlin . 



Aiistralia. 

 7 Zauberholz or bewitching sticks. 22 Nulla null as and zcaddies. 

 5 W^(7w;;;rr« or spear-throwing sticks. 13 Shields. 8 Hammers. 

 Small bark canoe. 2 Pump-drills. 6 Breast shells, decorated. 

 Stone knife for Mika operation. Boomerangs in great number. 



New Guinea and Bismarck Archipelago . 

 Dancing masks, a fine series. Strings of shell money. Money 

 chains. 8 Rattan nooses used by head hunters ( Fl}' River ?). 

 2 Carved figures. Can-ed drum (S.New Guinea); another with 

 shell rattlers; 3 of common form. Star club with eleven points 

 to the stone star; another with four points. Many and good 

 chalk images from New Ireland. Large series 

 of charms from Hermit Ids., usually a lower hu- 

 man jaw corded, and decorated with feather and 

 stick pendants. 2 Adzes with jade blades. Fig. 

 19. From New Britain, carved wood images; 2 

 pump-drills with stick for fly; carved wood fig- 

 ure, life size (8096); 8 Masks of the frontal por- 

 tion of human crania dressed with gum; 3 lower 

 jaws; Bailer with handle joined to back and bot- 

 tom. From the Samoan and Solomon Ids. not 

 much of interest: from the Hawaiian Ids. noth- 

 ing was seen. 

 Fig. 19. 



Of the Berlin Museum f iir Volkerkunde Prof. Dr. A. Bastian 

 (who visited these islands some years ago) is the learned Dire(5lor, 

 and Dr. Felix von lyuschan the Curator of the Department of Africa 

 and Polynesia. This, if not the only purely ethnological museum 

 in the world, is certainly the largest, best housed, and organized. 

 The new building is convenientl}' situated, large, and well-lighted, 

 yet so vigorous is the administration, that it has already become too 

 small for the vast colledtions within its walls and there are already 

 plans for a considerable extension. The admirable organization 

 of a Direcftor with five Curators of Departments, a fiscal commission 

 to attend to all money matters, artists, volunteer assistants and at- 

 tendants making a roll of some fifty persons, permits the Director to 

 go on expeditions sometimes lasting two years while the machinery 



