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logische Sammlung ; Mineralogische Sammlung ; Palaontologische 

 Sammlung; Zoologische Sammlung uud Zoologisches Institut; 

 and outside of this state commission are the Munchener Gesell- 

 schaft fiir Anthropologic Ethnologie und Urgesehichte ; Geo- 

 graphische Gesellsehaft ; Bayerische Botanische Gesellschaft zur 

 Erforschung der Heimischen Flora. A Zoologiseher Garten was 

 founded in 191 1 at Tierpark Hellabrunn. 



By the kindness of Dr. Walter Eehmann, Kustos of the Royal 

 Ethnographical Museum, we visited his collection on a closed 

 day, and were well repaid. The condition of the treasures in his 

 charge is the usual one in good live museums — crowded to the 

 utmost capacity of the rather unsuitable halls in the Arkaden. 

 In the Hawaiian department there was not much — a feather cape 

 of small size and a mahiole ; some poor lei niho palaoa ; 10 good 

 ohekapala; maika stones; 3 poi pounders; 8 stone adzes; 2 anklets 

 and 3 figures, 2 about a foot long, the other about 3 feet ; of these 

 we are promised photographs. 1 The Australian collection was un- 

 usually rich in carved stone churingas. more than 70; perhaps 6 

 horned boomerangs and several of the large carved ones ; many 

 ceremonial shields with emu down tufts and other ornamentation. 

 Many New Ireland chalk figures of very good quality — one a 

 double one, male and female back to back, none of them so in- 

 decent as is so often the case. From Admiralty Islands a large 

 bowl, 3 large totem poles with lizard in relief, combs of consider- 

 able size and new design. A few Matty Island articles. A Gilbert 

 Islands coconut fibre armor of which we are promised a photo- 

 graph. There were remarkable specimens of pottery from the 

 southern part of Dutch New Guinea with raised designs evidently 

 copies of wooden carvings ; one head was remarkable in having 

 the eyes repeated in diminishing size on the other sides of the 

 bowl. There were a number of other things in this collection, 

 especially huge shields, entirely new to me. From the Solomon 

 Islands was a new form of dancing flaps, and hermaphrodite figures, 

 of which photographs were promised. A fine Maori cloak, a good 

 Tahitian kapa beater, a lot of New Guinea pillows, good Fijian 

 clubs, Rapanui figures, Samoan and Tongan clubs, carved Man- 

 gaiau paddles and adze handles, one of the paddles carved in a mat 



'Illustrations of these are given in the sequel, Figs. 215-217. 



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