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on the matter.' Plate LXIX. shows the iiurolled coil of this currenc}', of which the 

 length of the feathered part is 23 feet, its width 1.2 inches. Between the band and the 

 wooden hoops that it is coiled upon when rolled up ( Fig. 20) there are cords of twisted 

 fibre respedlivelj^ 28.5 and 26 inches. The band is composed of longitudinal vegetable 

 fibres wrapped around with similar fibre, to which the red feathers of a common lory 

 {^7 riclioglossus viasscna Bonaparte) are glued \>y some tar-like substance. On the 

 edges near the ends are seeds of Coix lac/iryiua, but none of the other ornaments 

 mentioned by Etheridge. 



9 Edge-Partington Album, I.. PI. 165, figures a coil without the interior support. Codrington, The Melanesians, 1891. p. 324. gives per- 

 haps the earliest account of its use. Schnieltz. Intertiat. Archiv. Ethnogvaphie, VI.. 1893, p. 57, refers to Santa Cruz feather money. 

 Jennings, Notes on an Ethnological Collection from Safita Cruz, Journ. Anthrop. Inst., I., n. s., PI. 64. Temple, Begin niugf. 0/ Currency, Ibid, 

 II.. n. s.. p, 99. Ktheridge. The Tavati, or Coil Feather Currency 0/ Santa Cruz Island, Records Anst. Mus., IV., p. 2S9. 



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