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Tongan Islands. Drum 52 in. long, carved; cylin- 

 drical gong, 5 adzes, 14 combs, 7 heavy paddle-head clubs, 

 food-hook with disk, club with tobacco pipe worked 

 through the head, mats of open-work, 2 aprons of bird 

 bones and shells (Fig. 234), 2 baskets of line sennit-work 

 (Fig. 233), and boxes covered with basket-work, large 

 kapa-beater; many pillows of carved wood (Fig. 197), and 

 others of bambu like the Samoan ; canoe model, bows, 

 many fish-hooks of the usual heavy pattern. 



Hervey Islands. Five carved food-scoops; cere- 

 monial adzes, 10 short, 10 long, one 5 ft. long; kapa with 

 black figures, 2 stalactite pounders; 22 carved paddles, 

 one with double end, four with flat heads, the rest with 

 rosettes; about a dozen duplicate paddles, smaller ; finely 

 carved cylindrical drum ( Fig. 232), feather caps, god from 

 Aitutaki 49 in. high; goddess from same 20.5 in.; 3 tine 

 open-work district gods from Mangaia, coral rock image 

 15 in. high; supreme god of Atiu, of curious form. God of 

 paddle form 61 in., bound with sennit. National god of 

 Rarotonga, a long, carved stick bound with sennit and 

 kapa bauds making a conical bundle about 13 ft. long; the 

 end of the stick a human head (Fig. 235). Beautifully 

 carved god 94.5 in. long. From Rarotonga, Te Rongo and 

 his three sons springing from his breast, 27 in. high 

 ! Fig. 236); carved symbol of Tangaroa, 39.5 in. long, from 

 the great marae at Natipaki ; squat idol 17.5 in. high. 

 Several other curious bundle idols: all these last from the 

 London Missionary Society collection, now the property 

 of the museum. 



Austral Islands. Image of the creative god of the 

 group, covered with figures in relief and hollow within 

 (Figs. 237-238); a cast is in the Bishop Museum. Female 

 figure 24.25 in. high, carved in wood. L. M. S. 



Gambier Islands. A large paddle. 



Fijian Islands. Cap of spider-web, a good speci- 

 men; 62 pots of various shapes, 5 wdgs of human wool ; 13 

 clubs, pineapple form, 31 musket and lotus forms (includ- 

 ing the fine one shown in Fig. 239), 13 knobbed, 12 throw- 

 ing, 6 round, and many duplicates; 14 war-paddles and 

 many duplicates, several ornamental paddles, 6 yaqona 

 bowds; yaqona bowl given by Cakobau, 44.5 in. in diameter, 

 the largest I have seen (one in the Bishop Museum, also 

 from the old king, is 32.75 in. ); model of temple in sennit, 

 2 bambu roll kapa-markers, 3 carved food-hooks ; lali or 

 gong of wood, good size; 2 smaller ones; oil dishes in great 

 variety, 2 rolls of sennit, tatuing implements, 2 kapa- 

 beaters, girdle of Oliva shells, 4 cannibal forks. .Stem of 

 shaddock tree in which are imbedded some of the bones of 

 .1 chiel and hi- son, relics of a cannibal feast. ^Bk 



Solomon Islands. Two food dishes of large size, 4 

 clubs covered with plaited fern-stem, man}' common clubs, 2 3 T - 



package of Canarium nut food ; 4 pandean pipes, one of 

 irregular form; 8 fish-floats; 6 human figures in wood, small; many longiels, 

 both war and dance; 4 clubs, .San Cristobal; 3 clubs of unusual form, 15 

 adzes with handles, ear-plugs of wood with inlaid faces, sunshade like the 



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