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Ausitalia and iVca' Guinea. 

 Stuffed specimens of Cassowary and Emu. 



Ah-iC Hebrides. 

 Pseudo mummy with human skiill from Mallicolo*. 



These lists will roughly represent the colle(5lions of material 

 accessible to students. The number of specimens remaining in 

 private hands as curiosities is very limited if exception be made of 

 showy clubs, canoe models and the like. It will be seen that in all 

 museums weapons predominate. Spears are very numerous for 

 they are from their length inconvenient in private houses. There 

 are perhaps weapons enough preserved in museums to arm every 

 able bodied native in the Pacific region at the present day. The 

 following is an approximate estimate of the number of certain 

 prominent articles to be found in museums: 



BISHOP ELSE- 

 MUSEUM. WHERE. 



Dried Maori heads with Moko (Gen'l Robley) - - 50 



Hei-vey Islands Ceremonial Adzes ------- 2 40 



" " " Paddles ------ 4 c;o 



Heitikis, New Zealand ------------ 3 71 



Pump Drills ---------------- 6 27 



Hawaiian Feather and wicker Helmets ----- 2 30 



Cloaks ----------- 6 27 



Capes ----------- 6 55 



Gods ----------- 2 9 



Vitian Clubs, Musket and Lotus -------- 8 247 



Pine-apple ----------- 2 92 



Knobbed ------------ 4 159 



" " Throwing ----------- 15 210 



" " Round ------------- 4 103 



" Pots ---------- 7 — • 



Solomon Islands Arrows ----------- 150 6000 



New Caledonian Disk Clubs --------- 40 



" " Death masks -------- 2 25 



Marquesan Clubs -------------- 34 



Hawaiian wooden idols ----------- 25 40 



stone idols ------------ 20 18 



It may be of little use to estimate the number of specimens 

 representing the island groups of the central Pacific, but it may 

 show to some extent the material available for stud}^ from each 

 group. It should be remembered that the Melanesian or Papuan 

 races are more extensive manufacturers than their Polynesian 



* These figures are covered with seaweed, and moulded with a mixture of red cane 

 ashes kneaded with unripe coconut water. When this is dry- a priming coat of the juice of 

 the Artocarpus and then painted with ochres, etc. 



