Moriori Iiiiplciiioits 



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feature : we are assured that it is customary to extract the four upper 

 incisors as an ante-nuptial precaution, and our skull is then that of a 

 married woman. We have been promised a complete female skeleton. 

 From the Chatham Islands we were fortunate enough to pro- 

 cure a colledlion of implements made nearly forty years ago by an 

 old resident. Since then an agent of an English museum has 

 swept the group bare. Moriori implements are very rare in col- 



FIG. 5. 



le(5lions and the people are nearly extinct. In many of the speci- 

 mens the Maori resemblances are plain, but the collecftion seems 

 worthy of a more complete exposition and illustration than can be 

 given in the limits of this report. 



Usually we have been dependent on the "Morning Star" for 

 Micronesian specimens, but this year we have obtained from an- 

 other source several good things that were not in the Museum. 

 A curious hairpin (Fig. 4) with a Tercbra shell truncated and 

 cemented with a resin to a polished Mcleagriiia shell for a top, and 

 a band of beads of coconut shell and the red Spondylus so prized 



