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20 in. long; 2 long basket-work cones with seed capsule rattles at the apex. 

 Small rush figure with extended arms and fingers; 2 decorated caps for festi- 

 vals; 4 earthern pots, two of them from Santo. 



Solomon Islands. Nine clubs covered with fern-stem braid; 11 paddle 

 clubs of dark wood, 15 of light wood; 5 longiels, 4 dance longiels, 5 arm-guards 

 of coiled vine, 35 stone axes; 2 shields of wood, 2 of reeds, and 1 braided, 

 plain; 12 carved canoe figures, 20 carved dance figures; 18 dance paddles, 

 common; 12 with carved tops; pump-drill with cylindrical fly, 2 war belts; 

 arrows galore. Canoe model inlaid, 2 women's dresses of white cord, 2 carved 

 boat idols with turban-like head covers, club of flat rhomboidal form, 2 masks 

 inlaid, 4 earthern pots, 18 bows, 7 canoe heads inlaid with pearl-shell. Food 

 bowl, inlaid, family size; another smaller. Human figure on frame, 2 human 

 heads carved on a base, double-headed human figure, inlaid; braided comb, 

 3 large wooden mortars from Shortland Island, the largest 30 in. high exclu- 

 sive of ground peg; 3 bunches of white Helix shells used as rattles, 7 decorated 

 coconut and bambu water-bottles, 9 woven baskets or bags, 18 stone adzes; 

 9 baskets of rattan, 2 with handles; 8 hair-pins with human figure carved on 

 top, 13 lime-boxes of bambu decorated; 19 lime-boxes of gourd, engraved; 

 large pan-pipe, with 12 reeds. More than 50 red and yellow woven armlets of 

 artistic patterns. 



New Guinea and Bismarck 

 Archipelago. An immense col- 

 lection impossible to enumerate 

 here. It is probably the best in 

 any museum, as one would expect 

 from the extensive interests of the 

 German Government in this re- 

 gion. Of the more remarkable 

 objects are the following: Eleven 

 shields, heavy, carved wood; 10 

 shields, similar but rectangular; 8 

 decorated shields of wood curved 

 horizontally; 14 similar but curved 

 vertically; 2 wooden shields from 



Friedrich Wilhelm's Land, 7 carved wood shields with arm notch at top, 3 

 hour-glass shields covered with braided rattan, 10 stone disk clubs, stone 

 star club, club with triangular stone head, 6 knobbed clubs, 2 pump-drills, 

 6 carved wood pillows, 1 1 stone adzes mounted; 14 drums with lizard-skin heads 

 and flat bases; 2 similar with mitre-shaped bases; 2 pan-pipes with 24 reeds, 

 from New Hanover; 2 similar pipes from the same locality with 20 and 21 reeds. 

 From New Ireland: 12 masks of human frontal bones, 25 stone ball clubs; war- 

 gong, a hollow cylinder 49 in. long and 69 in circumference, with a longitudi- 

 nal slit 2 in. wide; 27 chisel-like adzes of greenstone; 21 chalk images, some of 

 unusual size; 2 wood floats for shark fishing. Wooden fiddle from New Britain 

 (Fig. 210), 6 shell collars flat on the fibre, same locality. Two mummies of 

 children from Torres Strait; 7 tortoise-shell masks from same locality. Tri- 

 ton trumpet, dukduk costume, 7 matrimonial nut signals; 8 wooden clubs, 

 cone at both ends, 26 small greenstone adzes, bags decorated with Coix seeds; 

 slings like Hawaiian from Kaiser Wilhelm Land. Pan-pipes with 9 reeds, lower 

 ends fibre-bound; lime-boxes of gourd and coconut shell, shell crescents, etc. 



2IO. WOODEN FIDDLE. 



LEIDEN. Rijks Ethnographisch Museum te Leiden. Dr. H. H. Juynboll, 



Directeur. 



Hawaiian Islands. Feather cloak, red with yellow triangles. 1 Feather 

 cape with a narrow border of red and yellow feathers alternating triangles on 

 sides and neck, the body covered with the green-black feathers of the Frigate- 



1 This has been figured in the Internationales Archivfur Ethnographic Bd. I, Taf. viii. At 

 present this is much torn and faded. [4 2 5~l 



