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Marquesas Islands. Five head-dresses; complete pair of stilts with 

 original rests and binding (best seen); figures, 6 carved stilt rests, 2 clubs, 

 carved box of inferior quality, carved bailer, 4 paddles, 2 poi-pounders. 



Much of the material being arranged as trophies on the walls, and out of 

 reach, it was impossible to classify. The good material formerlv in the Musee 

 de Marine has been distributed and did not appear. 



PARIS. Musee d'Artillerie ( Invalides). 



Besides the merely military implements were found on the walls and in 

 table cases the following: 



Two New Caledonian adzes of the short handle form, jade disk club from 

 same group, Marquesan club, several Samoan clubs, 2 Hervey Islands cere- 

 monial staffs, Fijian staff. The Hawaiian cloak, helmet and lei used to cover 

 one of the models are nearlv featherless. 



LONDON. Royal United Service Museum in Whitehall Palace. 



Arranged on the walls of the entrance are many fine spears and clubs 

 that do not appear in the following list. 



Hawaiian Islands. Helmet of good form with broad crest, of plaited 

 rush, with no signs of feathers. Drum of coconut wood well carved and with 

 shark-skin head. Kupee ilio of large size but discolored and dilapidated. 

 Two boar-tusk bracelets, one of entire teeth, the other of cut ones. Xewa of 

 kauila wood. Knife of shark-teeth of unusual form, open in the middle, 

 with nine teeth on each side and one at the end; another of common form 

 with eight teeth. 



New Zealand. Mere of greenstone 19 in. long; another almost as large; 

 5 of common form, 2 of jade. Patu of carved w 7 ood, 3 of whale rib; 3 green- 

 stone adzes; canoe stern, rather small; 4 taiaha, 2 tewhatewha or battle axes. 



Tongan Islands. Drum of wood, the lower half of the cylinder elabor- 

 ately carved, as are the lugs for attaching the cords which tighten the drum- 

 head. Clubs finely carved; a small one in the case of relics of Captain Cook 

 is labelled ' 'given by the king of Owhyhee to Captain Cook". Paddles, large 

 and well carved. 



Marquesas Islands. Two clubs of the finest quality; 2 paddles, long 

 and good. 



Society Islands. .Stone adz? with handle; several spears. 



Gilbert Islands. Suit of coconut fibre armor with the curious shark- 

 teeth weapons for the fore-arm with nine longitudinal rows of teeth. A suit 

 of similar armor from Xawodo has a hemispherical cap and an upright cape 

 like those in Berlin and Hamburg. 



Solomon Islands. Two reed shields, one rectangular, the other with 

 rounded corners; several bows; clubs with fern-plaited covering almost gone. 



Fijian Islands. Six war-paddles; club, musket pattern of great size; 

 5 common ditto, 11 knobbed, 3 pineapple, 1 1 throwing, a round one 3.5 in. in 

 diameter. 



From Niue several paddles; from New Guinea a bow of bambu; and from 

 the Admiralty Islands spears with obsidian points. The Secretary kindly 

 permitted me to photograph such implements as I desired. 

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