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cal costumes. On the right: sarcophagus in carved wood (New 

 Zealand). In front : stern, prow, and figurehead of a New Zealand 

 war canoe." The punctuation, if a little puzzling, is abundant ; 

 the italics are of the original. It seems hard to say that the 

 arrangement of the room is fairly described. The Hall of America 

 is much better, and the Hall of the French Provinces is quite 

 interesting, with figures, dress and utensils. 



90. MUSEE GUIMET. 



The Hotel des Invalides has its museum, but the different 

 portions are rather hard to find as they are sometimes moved and 

 removed, but we at last came upon the costumed savages we were in 

 search of, and the ethnology of the show was remarkable as it was 

 fourteen years ago. The feathers had faded and nearly disappeared 

 from the Hawaiian war cloak and helmet ; a Gilbert Islander, 

 called New Caledonian, was holding a Fijian spear; there were 

 two New Caledonian short handled adzes and a greenstone disk 

 club (neither of these war implements) . It was not to be wondered 

 at that the attendants showed little or no interest in the show. 



The Musee Guimet (Fig. 90) is of quite a different character 

 though not far distant. Its province is the religious of the East, 

 Japan and China chiefly, and the collection of ceramics given in 



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