40 Pa lis — London . 



gone to clearly demark the pattern in red and yellow. The 

 figure is tatued in checks and in one hand holds a Tahitian 

 spear, in the other a ceremonial carved adze from Mangaia, 

 Herve}' Islands. A mat malo from some other locality 

 covers his loins. The following is a translation of the cata- 

 logue description: "When the Hawaiian Islands were dis- 

 covered there was found there a sovereign enjoying all the 

 prerogatives and surrounded by the etiquette which belongs 

 to roj^alt}'. He had a guard clothed with sumptuous man- 

 tles of feathers of great value . Our figure wears one of these 

 mantles of which the foundation made of cord has a feather 

 at each knot. These feathers are taken from a little bird 

 colored red, yellow and black belonging to the Souimanga 

 [Honey-suckers] famil}-, and it can be seen how manj- of 

 these birds were required to make the mantle. Another 

 .strange thing is that the king's guards wear a helmet recall- 

 ing the Greek casques. The Musee du lyouvre contains 

 some very curious ones: ours is covered, as we learn from 

 our explorers, with a feather stuff like that of tne mantles. 

 These warriors had the body tatued in checks of .square, 

 triangular or lozenge form. The Hawaiians are now civil- 

 ized, but in memory of ancient times the king still has 

 four heralds dressed in the traditional feather helmet and 

 mantle." 



These are all of the models from the Pacific Region worth 

 notice and if the others are as inaccurate as the representative of 

 Hawaii* the collection is ver\' misleading. Many unclassified 

 arms are on the walls and in cases, among them a fine ceremonial 

 adze from Mangaia; a Marquesan paddle; 2 fine Solomon Islands 

 longiels; Fijian Pineapple club and war paddle; a New Caledonian 

 Jade disk club and 2 short adzes, and one with a large stem that 

 seems not to belong to it. 



Crossing the Channel we find the same condition of things 

 as in Paris, in that the colle6lions are scattered and in so far of 

 diminished value, instead of being united in one grand Museum of 

 Ethnology. It is unfortunate for ethnology that so rich a nation 



*The Hawaiian figure is e\'idently copied from the figure in one of the French Voyages. 



