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graphs are in the Museum collediou showing groups of these tree 

 drums, and the manner of beating upon them by stones wrapped 

 in kapa or other vegetable fibre. The sculpture of the head is 



broad and rude but evi- , ^^^ Hebrides ^ 



dently follows some can- . __ __,^ 



on as there is a strong- 

 family likeness. Idols 

 are made in similar 

 fashion but without the 

 void within. Two large 

 idols car\-ed from tree 

 ferns accompany these 

 ( Fig. 2 ) . They are wor- 

 shipped by the sacrifice 

 of pigs, and in some of 

 the photographs the por- 

 cine bones of the offer- 

 ings mount to the chins 

 of the figures. The face 

 is decorated with color 

 of a chalky nature broad- 

 ly laid on. As the im- 

 ages stand the fern is 

 inverted, the root mass 

 serving for head. One 

 image is 7 ft. 10 in., the 

 other 7 ft. 4 in. 



Four figures of a processional nature, made of bambu and 

 twigs, with caricatures of human heads. Two of the.se (Fig. 3) 

 have human crania with the facial region covered with some plas- 

 tic material, and the nose is inordinately prolonged as if in protest 

 against the niggardly allotment of Nature. The third has no hu- 

 man bone but cotton wool simulates it. The fourth is of a phallic 



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