276 Report of a Journey A round the World. 



Fiji. Twenty-seven common pieces of pottery; 21 clubs, musket form, 



3 decorated with shells; 18 throwing, 10 round, 14 knobbed, 6 pineapple, one 

 very small head; 11 spears, finely carved; 2 war paddles; paddle with shovel 

 blade. 4 others carved; 2 carved lances, short and barbed; 3 kapa-beaters, one 

 handle carved; 3 wooden shark-hooks. Head covering of netted rushes tipped 

 with feathers; 5 ornaments of whale-teeth; two more with the teeth halved. 



4 necklaces of cachelot teeth; 3 with filed teeth. Many fringed dresses, 

 4 yaqona bowls, oval yaqona bowl on four legs; 5 fans, mostly of whole palm 

 kaves. Oil dish with carved support; another semicircular, 3 cannibal forks, 

 carved wooden spoon, turtle-bone scoop, 2 food-hooks of odd forms, manykapa 

 sulas. Human figure 30 in. high, carved wood, round face; 4 wooden pillows. 



Micronesia. Chisels of shell, daggers of bambu, stool of wood inlaid 

 with bone. Helmet of coconut braid conical in form, 15 in. high; 3 round, 

 carved wood boxes; 6 carved wood figures. Fire-plow, quite like the Ha- 

 waiian; 2 rasps of wood covered with sunfish skin. House model from Kusaie 

 i Finsch, 18S3); shell tripod dish. Bundles of preserved food and mai^ of 

 the common shell ornaments, belts, earrings, etc. 



209. SHELL ADZE, HERMIT ISLANDS. 



Hermit Islands. Two wooden food troughs, one 8.5 ft., the other 6± ft. 

 long, with well-carved internal handles. Large flat dish of dark wood, 2 bail- 

 ers with handle attached to the bottom; 6 carved canoe prows, one quite large; 

 15 human lower jaw ornaments, 4 canoe models, 12 wood pins beautifully 

 carved, 2 carved wood fishes; 2 wooden dishes with handles and obtuse ends; 

 6 similar ones, but with carved, pointed ends. Four wooden bowls, two of them 

 small and like those from the Admiralty Islands. Five shell adzes (Fig. 209), 

 2 wooden ladles with human figures, carved adze handle; kapa, coarse and 

 slightly beaten; 7 combs, three of them with bearded human heads. Fish- 

 hooks of single piece of shell, decorated, but of rough finish and without barbs. 



Admiralty Islands. Forty-five obsidian-head lances; 10 gourd, dec- 

 orated lime-boxes, hour-glass shape; 3 wooden bowls carved in form of birds; 

 2 smaller ones of same form but lighter wood. Globular bowls of red pottery; 

 wooden bowl on four legs, a smaller one with carved handles; 3 bailers, the 

 ends of handles phallic. Cylindrical wood gong 3 ft. long, slit lengthwise 

 and hollow, projecting handles at the ends, carved decorations over the 

 handles; 4 oval wooden bowls, 2 similar with finely carved handles; bead belt 

 with 14 strands; canoe model, outriggered; 5 lances, carved; 8 obsidian dag- 

 gers; 8 daggers, carved, sting-ray points; adze of obsidian, large wooden food 

 bowl, 5 ladles with carved handles; 3 obsidian axes, one with carved handle. 



New Hebrides. Two large human figures of rushes with skulls or 

 frontal bones, painted; 6 knobbed (star) clubs of dark wood; 4 spears with 

 single point and carved head; 14 with many barbs, carved; 3 with many points 

 of sting-ray; 13 bows; 6 clubs, spindle pattern; arrows with bluish points, 

 net pig-catcher, 3 pan-pipes with 6, 7, and 17 reeds; carved oval wooden bowl 



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